Indie game Venba serves up Tamil cuisine and family's heartfelt story of life in Canada

CBC Radio Specials7:27Indie game Venba serves up Tamil cuisine and family’s heartfelt story of life in Canada

Toronto-based developer Abhi’s new game Venba tells a story about love, loss and heartbreak while exploring his Tamil immigrant culture and history.

If you imagine what a video game about cooking would be like, you might think of cooking competitions popular with reality television: a fast-paced, nail-biting series of challenges with a ruthless panel of judges.

But for Toronto-based developer Abhi, his new game Venba was a way to tell a story about love, loss and heartbreak while exploring his Tamil immigrant culture and history — while not strictly adhering to an autobiographical playbook.

Venba is

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