Mar 18, 2024

A video game where the only violence is in the economics

Dot's Home lead writer and narrative desiger Evan Narcisse. David Brancaccio/Marketplace

Made in Detroit, the interactive video game Dot's Home takes users through a generations-long cycle of housing discrimination. Plus, Apple is in talks with Google for a potential AI integration.

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Skin in the Game

Video game Dot's Home brings a story of housing injustice to life

by David Brancaccio and Erika Soderstrom

Mar 18, 2024

The interactive game lets players follow one family's account of disadvantage and discrimination through the generations.

"We wanted to tell a multigenerational story, because when you think about housing disadvantage, it is cumulative," says Christina Rosales, above, co-creator of Dot's Home.

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