I was developing the game with that theme. "So I was like, Oh, let me talk about like the erasure of indigenous people in the United States, and let's focus on these interesting characters like the Kachina dolls and their stories. "I'd always been fascinated by ," Esposito says. In 2015, he spoke at the Failure Workshop (part of the Game Developers Conference) about the pushback he'd received toward an earlier version of the game, Kachina, which was inspired by Hopi dolls. While he was developing the game, Esposito, a cis white male, learned a few lessons about allyship and ways to explore identity. That was as far as I wanted to go in terms of having a moral to the story because I don't think the scope of my game can really fit the solution to gentrification in it." Here are some of the impacts and consequences on the community. "So I really wanted the perspective of it to be, Hey, you are the gentrifier. "I'm changing the place that I live," Esposito says. That's what motivated him to create Donut County. The elephant in the room: Esposito's complicity in that gentrification.Īs a tech worker moving into an area largely inhabited by people of color, many of them working class, he knows he's part of the problem. "When I go for a walk in the morning, I always see something new or plans for something new," he says. It is the result of six years of solo development, dozens of donuts (for research), and one fateful encounter with a raccoon.Esposito lives in Highland Park, a neighborhood tat has seen a wave of high-end coffee shops, yoga studios and pricey apartment complexes spring up in recent years. The hole won’t stop until the whole county is all gone.ĭonut County was created by Ben Esposito, designer on What Remains of Edith Finch and The Unfinished Swan. You can use it to solve puzzles.or just destroy stuff. COMBINE objects inside for crazy effects: cook soup, breed bunnies, launch fireworks, and more.MOVE the hole to swallow up their stuff, growing bigger each time.EXPLORE every character’s home, each with their own unique environment.When BK falls into one of his own holes, he’s confronted by his best friend Mira and the residents of Donut County, who are all stuck 999 feet underground… and they demand answers! You play as BK, a hole-driving raccoon who swallows up his friends and their homes to earn idiotic prizes. Raccoons have taken over Donut County with remote-controlled trash-stealing holes.
Meet cute characters, steal their trash, and throw them in a hole. Donut County is a story-based physics puzzle game where you play as an ever-growing hole in the ground.
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