Dot's Home

A young woman journeys through time to revisit pivotal moments in her family's past.

DOT'S HOME is a single-player, 2D, narrative-driven video game. You play as a young Black woman in Detroit, living in her grandmother's cherished house. As she travels through time, she relives crucial points in her family's history where issues of race, place, and home force difficult decisions.

This interactive experience lets players witness the harmful systems that shape our relationship to race and place through the eyes of those most affected. By placing players in scenarios where they must make choices about how and where to live amid redlining, urban renewal, and gentrification, it poses a fundamental question: “How did your family end up where they are today, and how much choice did they truly have along the way?”

DOT'S HOME is a production of the Rise-Home Stories Project—a creative collaboration between multimedia storytellers and housing and land justice advocates. Over three years, they have worked together to reimagine the past, present, and future of our communities by transforming the stories we tell about them.

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