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. 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.

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