A young woman journeys through time, revisiting pivotal moments that shaped her family's story.
DOT'S HOME is a single-player, 2D, narrative-driven video game. You follow a young Black woman in Detroit living in her grandmother's cherished home, traveling through time to witness the critical points in her family's past where race, place, and home intersect, forcing difficult decisions.
As an interactive experience, DOT'S HOME lets you see the harmful systems that shape our relationship to race and place through the eyes of those most affected. By placing you in scenarios where you must make choices about how and where to live amidst 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, multi-year collaboration between multimedia storytellers and housing and land justice advocates, aiming to reimagine the past, present, and future of our communities by transforming the narratives we tell about them.