What happens when another game steals your pitch? Donut County developer Ben Esposito faced this question back in June, when a friend showed him a familiar-looking mobile game: ‘Hole.io’. The problem was, Donut County was still months from release, while this clone had seemingly replicated the central mechanic – in which your ever-burgeoning hole (cheeky) attempts to consume larger buildings to grow – and was already climbing on the App Store.
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