Set to launch later this month, Venba aims to make the cooking video game genre more meaningful.
When I write “cooking game,” I’d bet a pretty specific image comes into your head. Your brain might go straight to something like Cooking Mama, where you need to assemble several random recipes through a series of tactile minigames. That’s become a go-to format for developers looking to adapt cooking into a game, but it’s not exactly what developer Visai Games wanted to do for Venba.
Cooking for a reason Billed as a “short and sweet cinematic experience,” Venba aims to tell a multi-generational story that begins in the 1980s and continues through the 2000s. It’s centered around the titular Venba, a mother who wants to make sure that she can pass down South Indian culture to her young son Kavin. For creative director Abhi, it was important that Venba’s story wasn’t just told through its visual novel sequences, but reflected in its gameplay.
What’s more important is how each recipe is contextualized in its story. During the preview, Abhi showed a sequence where Kavin stubbornly demands his parents make pizza for dinner. Intent on sharing an Indian recipe with him instead, Venba convinces him to help her make puttu by telling him that cooking it is like “launching a rocket ship.” Players get to see that in action firsthand as they assemble a tower of rice that’s able to stand on its own once removed from its puttu kudam.
South Africa Latest News, South Africa Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Ute Indian boarding schools saw nearly 60 student deathsUtes believed children “would sicken and die” at Randlett boarding school, an agent wrote in 1897. “Their superstition has been increased during the past year ... by three deaths in the school.”
Read more »
Canadian pensions funds keen to invest in India, Indian government saysCanadian pensions funds would be keen to explore investing in infrastructure funds in India as the country offers a stable investment climate, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Sunday, according to an Indian government statement.
Read more »
World Eskimo-Indian Olympics coordinates family of volunteers to host the eventsPutting on WEIO every year requires months of preparation.
Read more »
Indian shares may open flat as weak China data offsets Fed rate pause hopesIndian shares are set to open little changed on Monday after hitting record highs on Friday on the hopes of the U.S. Federal Reserve pausing its rate hiking cycle, while weak China data remained an overhang.
Read more »
Zero monsoon rain for Tucson, one month into season; heat record setTucson broke one record this week when it marked three consecutive days with lows of 85 degrees or warmer.
Read more »