Everywhere (video game)

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Everywhere is an upcoming massively multiplayer online game and game platform with an integrated game creation system developed by Build a Rocket Boy.

Everywhere
Developer(s)	Build a Rocket Boy
Publisher(s)	Build a Rocket Boy
Designer(s)	Leslie Benzies
Engine	Unreal Engine 5
Platform(s)	Windows
Genre(s)	Massively multiplayer online, Game creation system
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Gameplay

The players start in the city of Utropia, where they access different experiences, such as biomes surrounding the city, different game-modes, user-generated environments called ARCs, or the game MindsEye (developed by Build A Rocket Boy). Each of these experiences can be accessed via portals in Utropia City or the EVERYWHERE Menu.^[1] Everywhere is set in an open world^[2] made up of Utropia City and four biomes. While Utropia is a safe zone, the Biomes have PVP and PVE elements.^[3]

There are four game modes, known as districts: Racing District, an arcade racing game mode; Entertainment District, featuring an art gallery; Combat District, a third-person shooter mode; and The Collection, used to access and purchase user-generated content.^[4][5] The game features an editor environment known as "ARCADIA", which includes a library of reusable components, called Stamps, which can be used to build virtual items and experiences.^[6]

Development

Conceptualized in 2016, the game started development on Amazon Lumberyard with a team of three ex-Rockstar North employees—Leslie Benzies, Matthew Smith, and Colin Entwistle—which had increased to about thirty staff by January 2017. Royal Circus Games (renamed Build a Rocket Boy in October 2018),^[a] is developing Everywhere from studios based in Edinburgh, Budapest and Los Angeles, with the intention of offering a less restrictive experience than that of other games. It draws most of its influences from real life, according to Benzies.^[8][7][9] Staff worked from home during the COVID-19 pandemic.^[10]

In November 2020, the studio announced that it had moved development to the Unreal Engine.^[11]

In August 2022, a teaser trailer was shown at Gamescom 2022. The game was originally set to be released in 2023.^[12] An invite-only alpha playable session ran on Windows from December 5 to 18, 2023. On February 19, 2024, Build a Rocket Boy announced an unknown number of layoffs affecting the publishing, QA, and art departments across the company's three locations.^[13]

On June 18, 2024, the Builders Beta was released for Windows.^[14] This is a closed beta to test ARCADIA, the system used to create user-generated environments and components.^[15]

Notes

1. Take-Two Interactive levied a legal warning against Royal Circus Games, citing the similarity of its acronym (RCG) to Take-Two's subsidiary Rockstar Games (RSG) as infringement of intellectual property, while also decrying their employment of Rockstar North staff as a deceptive tactic to create an affiliation between them.^[7]