From pixelated apples to healing potions,
food in video games does far more than fill up your health bar.
It tells stories, builds worlds, and sometimes makes you really hungry.
This is The Food Chain from the BBC World Service with me, Ruth Alexander.
And this week,
we're exploring how video games use food to immerse players in a fantasy world and how that might make them look anew at food systems in the real world.
Joining me are three guests from the gaming universe,
two looking particularly pleased to be here.
I understand, Cassandra and Harriet,
you are very excited to be in the virtual room with Tim.
Yes.
Yeah, this is gaming royalty.
OG. Tim is like games industry royalty.
I hope you don't mind me saying that, but we're big fans at this house.
I'm about to start my 45th year of making games.
So I'm probably older than all of you and everyone listening in just my career.
And a legend.
A legend.
Experienced.
Tim is Tim Cain from Seattle in the United States,