"Dot's Home" follows a young Black woman as she travels through time to relive key moments in her family’s history where race, place, and choice collide.
"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 beloved home, as she travels through time to relive key moments in her family’s history where race, place, and home collide in difficult choices.
As an interactive experience, "Dot's Home" allows players to see the harmful systems that dictate our relationship to race and place, through the eyes of those that are most impacted. By inserting the player into scenarios where they have to make choices about how and where to live in the midst of redlining, urban renewal, and gentrification, we ask a fundamental question: “How did your family end up where they are today, and how much choice did they really have in 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 have come together over the course of three years, to reimagine the past, present, and future of our communities by transforming the stories we tell about them.
I love the fact that our MC is a natural-hair Black woman. The story has a lot of history and shows struggles that Black and Brown people have been through and continue to go through. While the game off to a great start, the gameplay is boring. There’s no purpose of the backpack items. You aren’t able to examine the deed. The dialogue doesn’t change regardless of your choices.
Really fun, also pretty sort
Ezera Catt
I loved the game! The graphics were really good and I loved how you could make choices. I somehow chose the correct options to get the best ending so I completed the game in about 90 minutes. You can look at the other two endings without having to go through it again if you want to, which I liked. So if you want a cool, pretty and short-ish game, this is perfect.
great concept!
indy______
I tloved that the concept of the game was very realistic, and educational. The only downside is that it felt like watching a movie, that ends as soon as you get to the really good part. I hope that eventually the creator comes back with a longer version.
Cool game
HotCakes5
The game is pretty cool. I like the concept of it and I finished it in about an hour and a half. It would be nice if there were different challenges so that game is longer. Also, it would've been nice to go back to the grandparent's past in South Carolina to make choices there
- Updated to a patched version of Unity to address the recent Unity security vulnerability.
Version 1.6
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