Dot's Home vs UpRoot

"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.

UpRoot: Climate Challenge Turn everyday actions into a global impact! UpRoot is a social competition game where players complete daily and bonus environmental challenges—like recycling, carpooling, or planting a tree—to earn points and climb the leaderboard. Submit photos as proof and share your green wins with friends. Track your progress and see how your habits contribute to a bigger environmental movement. Compete with friends or go global to inspire and be inspired. Build habits. Join the challenge. Change the world - one green step at a time.