Making VR games is tough when you’re living in Brazil — just ask this former pie seller

Ana Ribeiro gave up everything to learn game design. She quit her steady government job, abandoned her flourishing empada business, sold her possessions, and left Brazil behind to study in the U.K.. So it’s perhaps no real surprise that the former pie maker didn’t let an expired U.K. visa stop her from building her innovative virtual reality game, Pixel Ripped 1989.

Ribeiro is currently raising funds for the deliciously clever game-within-a-game — which fuses virtual classroom antics like shooting spitballs with ’80s gaming memories — through Kickstarter.