A video game where the only violence is in the economics
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Marketplace
4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
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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| 0:28.0 | There are video games about racing cars or building fantasy worlds today a game about better |
| 0:37.4 | communities here on Earth. |
| 0:39.7 | I'm David Brancaccio in St Paul today. Video games are bigger than movies and music combined. |
| 0:45.3 | What can the games and the vast industry |
| 0:47.3 | that surrounds them teach us about economics, |
| 0:49.9 | business, money, careers, equity? |
| 0:52.4 | We have an ongoing project on the Marketplace Morning Report called Skin in the Game here and |
| 0:57.5 | with streaming video. |
| 0:58.5 | Today I travel to Detroit to learn about a video game about housing discrimination where the only violence is in the economics. |
| 1:07.0 | We all know dot com. |
| 1:11.0 | Time to meet dot short for Dorothea, a character in a two-dimensional interactive video game out of Detroit called Dot's Home. |
| 1:19.0 | In this dream-like sequence, Dot has found a portal back in time. |
| 1:24.0 | She gets a hold of a magic key and travels through time to figure out that these choices |
| 1:30.0 | that her family has made about their housing and opportunity, they are not easy. |
| 1:35.1 | Christina Rosales is a community activist and co-creator of the game, which is free on steam or mobile platforms. |
| 1:42.3 | We wanted to tell a multi-generational story |
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