A young woman travels through time to revisit pivotal moments in her family's past.
DOT'S HOME is a single-player, 2D, narrative-driven video game featuring a young Black woman in Detroit living in her grandmother's cherished home. As she journeys through time, she experiences crucial points in her family's history where race, geography, and belonging intersect amidst challenging decisions.
Through this interactive experience, DOT'S HOME enables players to witness the harmful systems shaping our relationships with race and place from the perspective of those most affected. By placing players in scenarios where they must make decisions about housing and community amid redlining, urban renewal, and gentrification, we pose an essential question: "How did your family arrive where they are today, and how much agency did they truly have in that journey?"
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, these partners have worked together to reimagine the past, present, and future of our communities by transforming the narratives we share about them.
