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 featuring a young Black woman in Detroit residing in her grandmother’s cherished house. Through time travel, she relives critical instances in her family's history where race, location, and home intersect, forcing tough decisions.

As an interactive experience, DOT’S HOME immerses players in the harmful systems shaping our connections to race and place, seen through the eyes of those most affected. By placing players in situations where they must decide how and where to live amid redlining, urban renewal, and gentrification, it raises an essential question: “How did your family arrive where they are today, and how much agency did they truly have along the way?”

DOT’S HOME is a production of the Rise-Home Stories project: a creative partnership between multimedia storytellers and housing and land justice advocates. Over three years, they've collaborated to reimagine the past, present, and future of our communities by transforming the narratives we share about them.