
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.
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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.
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Languages: English
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demasiado curto, pouco interativo. torna-se aborrecido passados uns minutos
Super simple and short point and click game. While not my favourite game genre, I enjoyed the story and message it delivers and felt like I learnt a bit more about this part of America’s history. The art and animation is beautifully done, I also enjoyed that after finishing the game you get the option to see the other endings without needing to replay. Very impressive for a free game :)
A bit silly with the time travel plot, but the story themes are potent. I love that this game attempts to show the impacts of your individual decisions as they impact your neighbourhood. Although I wish the character animations were less stiff, it's otherwise a worthwhile playthrough. It's got multiple endings too!
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A short point and click that successfully made me more deeply consider my own role/relationship to my community and its history of gentrification and redlining.
A very cool game about community and the effects of gentrification on neighborhoods and families. Found about this game after one of the people involved with he game ( Aerial_Knight) was interviewed on the WIG podcast about indie games with Chelora and Chara Couture, and I'm glad I did! Recommended!
Great little free to play point and click choice making game. Story was great and the biggest point to this game. I love how every choice has REAL meaning to the rest of the story I love the wokeness of the game and how it tackles double standards for Black and Brown folk when it comes to buying and owning a home.. Gameplay is very basic but in a game like this what more could you ask for really. Music i good with some very emotional scores near the end. I love the hand drawn like art style really works for a game like this. Overall Score 6.5/10. [Story 15/20. Art Style 15/20. Gameplay 5/20. Music 15/20. Replayability 15/20.]
you have to play the whole story 2x times to get all achievements but its fine
This game is nothing but woke DEI trash bruv. Why do they keep making these racist, misandrist, woke propaganda games? Don't give this game the time of day.
3.5 Made me contemplate gentrification and what it means to cherish a community. I enjoy that it made my think, I do wish there were more "actions," I guess. I as the player only made three or four real action choices. Which is ok for a visual novel style game, but not my first choice. Still, it's free and has a cute style and good story.
Play it. Short and sweet free game with important message about community in light of gentrification.
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