Venba
A narrative cooking game about family, love, and loss told through South Indian cuisine
About
Venba is a short narrative cooking game, where you play as an Indian mom who immigrates to Canada with her family in the 1980s. Cook various dishes and restore lost recipes, hold branching conversations, and explore South Indian food in this story about family, love, and loss.
Awards
- Independent Games Festival Awards - Seumas McNally Grand Prize 2024
- Game Developers Choice Awards - Best Debut 2024
- Game Developers Choice Awards - Social Impact 2024
- British Academy Games Awards (BAFTA) - Debut 2024
What the Developers Say
"Yarn Spinner is the perfect tool for a team like ours, where not only was it easy for developers to integrate, but intuitive for the artist and designer to make large content changes by themselves. Yarn Spinner's versatile command system allowed us to create dynamic cutscenes in Venba that are fully animated with sound and music cues which were run through Yarn Spinner itself. We love it so much that it was one of the first tools we started with in our second game, and we look forward to using even more of it as it continues to grow and evolve!"
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Nintendo Switch