Donut County shows how much fun you can have with a hole

In Donut County, the starring role is a hole. I realize how ridiculous that sounds, but this is a pretty quirky game. I played it at the recent Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), and it was surprisingly fun. All you do is move a hole around a landscape, making things fall into it. The more things fall into it, the bigger the hole gets.

It comes from the mind of Ben Esposito, a Los Angeles game developer who came up with the idea as a kind of joke. Once he started building the game, he realized it could turn out to be really fun. He has lined up the game division of Hollywood movie production company Annapurna as the publisher. Annapurna Interactive will publish the title on the PC, Mac, and iOS in 2017.