A young woman travels through time to revisit pivotal moments in her family's history.

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. Through time travel, she relives crucial periods in her family's past where race, location, and belonging intersect, forcing difficult decisions.

As an interactive experience, DOT'S HOME lets players witness the harmful systems shaping our relationships with race and place through the eyes of those most affected. By placing players in scenarios where they must make housing choices amid redlining, urban renewal, and gentrification, we pose a fundamental question: "How did your family come to live 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/land justice advocates. Over three years, they've worked to reimagine the past, present, and future of our communities by transforming the narratives we share about them.