Hole-growing physicsy puzzler Donut County [official site] has a reveal trailer. Let’s not start @-ing me about the fact that the game has already been revealed not once but TWICE given it was also previously pitched as Kachina before Donut County after the developer, Ben Esposito (part of Arcane Kids and level designer of The Unfinished Swan and game design consultant for What Remains of Edith Finch) rethought the story he was able to tell and why. This two-and-a-halfth reveal is more about revealing some of the specifics of how you play and plopping the revised 2018 launch date on the project in case people thought it was still due out this year.

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A horror game putting me in a room with a Furby would be spooky enough for me; those things are terrifying. Force me to care for a Furby while also avoiding the wrath of its bloodthirsty mamabot and no, no thank you, no, that’s kind but no, no thank you. You, however, may be interested in Tattletail [Steam page]. It’s a first-person horror game set around Christmas 1998, starring a small child playing with the year’s hottest toy when bad things happen. It was released a few days after Christmas, fittingly, by a small team including Ben Esposito of Donut County and Arcane Kids fame. Here, watch its old television commercial: Read the rest of this entry »

“A whimsical physics toy that gives players control of a mysterious hole that gets bigger each time they swallow something” sure sounds like something I’d like to play with.

Our John gushed over Kachina when he saw it at 2013’s GDC Experimental Gameplay Workshop, but too often games turn up there then vanish. This lives! Creator Ben Esposito (level designer on The Unfinished Swan and member of those wonderful Arcane Kids) this week announced that it’s become Donut County and shared a new trailer of that hole doing its swallowing thing.

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