Archief - Everybody's Gone to the Rapture

An open world pure story game set in rural England during the very second of the apocalypse.

Over the course of the game, the player slowly pieces together the fate of the valley from the fragmentary memories of the people who made it their home. By finding and interacting with the traces of these lost lives, the player gradually learns about the stories and relationships of the inhabitants – how they lived, and how they died. All this is accomplished through revolutionary environmental storytelling – what you see and hear in Rapture is just as important as what you do.

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It uses simple gameplay – basic exploration of a first-person world – so it’s very friendly to people without a lot of game experience. But it’s not casual in the classic sense – this is a deep and immersive game.

It’s all about the end of the world. You play the role of a scientist, trapped in the very second of the apocalypse, and the game is about discovering what has happened. You do this by exploring a large open-world environment, and interacting with the objects, places and people you find to gradually unlock and put together the story.

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"Originally, when we started the game off it was going to be an hour long for each playthrough. It would be almost like kind of a Groundhog Day or 12:01-type thing where you've got an hour. How far can you get? How much can you explore? Imagine reading a novel and you're really into it, and 30 pages before the end someone comes up and takes it out of your hand and goes, 'I'm afraid that's it. Your time's up.' It's an artificial conceit that doesn't necessarily produce a good player experience." Time limits, Pinchbeck notes, are "probably more suited to an arcade-style game, but not really good for a non-linear story-driven drama."

Pinchbeck notes that Rapture will still be non-linear and set during the final moments before the apocalypse. "Time still plays a fairly central role in the game - it's just the time-locked stuff is gone," he clarifies, though he hasn't sorted exactly how this will be handled.

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It’s been a long time since we've posted any updates about the progress of Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, and as it's the holiday season, we wanted to let you all know a bit more about what's been going on.

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So the end is in sight. We’re going to announce a launch date shortly, so stay tuned. I’m so proud of the team and the game we’ve made. Rapture is going to be really different, an apocalypse like no other, and we think it’s going to be good.

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Voor we tijdens de PlayStation Digital Gaming Days aan de slag konden met Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, kregen we een presentatie voorgeschoteld van één van de ontwikkelaars. Hij vertelde ons dat de game eigenlijk niet geschikt was om in een presentatie door te nemen. Want voor elke zin die je gebruikt om de game uit te leggen, zijn er in zijn ogen gelijk drie zinnen die hij vergeet te noemen. Het is in zijn ogen een game die je moet spelen om te begrijpen.

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