Dot's Home

A young woman journeys through time to relive pivotal moments in her family’s history.

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, as she travels through time to experience critical junctures in her family’s past where race, place, and home intersect in challenging decisions.

As an interactive experience, DOT’S HOME lets players see the harmful systems that shape our relationships to race and place through the eyes of those most impacted. By immersing players in scenarios where they must choose how and where to live amid redlining, urban renewal, and gentrification, it raises a core question: “How did your family end up where they are today, and how much choice did they truly have on 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 who joined forces over three years to reimagine the past, present, and future of our communities by transforming the stories we tell about them.

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