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 that follows a young Black woman in Detroit living in her grandmother’s cherished home. She journeys through time to experience critical points in her family’s history where race, place, and home intersect, forcing difficult decisions.
As an interactive narrative, DOT’S HOME 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 choose how and where to live amid redlining, urban renewal, and gentrification, it raises an essential question: “How did your family end up where they are today, and how much real choice did they 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.
