Hey there! I’m Everton

Some people find their thing early. I found mine before I could even write.

Before I knew the alphabet, I was already designing games, scribbled maps, invented rules, worlds that existed only in my head and on whatever paper I could find. My older brother was my first player, and probably my biggest early influence: he’s the one who introduced me to D&D and heavy metal, two things that quietly shaped everything that came after

I grew up on the coast of Brazil, sun, salt water, a skateboard under my feet and a Magic deck in my pocket. It was a good childhood. Loud, outdoors, and probably too exciting for my parents.

But somewhere between wipeouts and scraped knees, I discovered RPG Maker 2000 at age 13, and something clicked that never really unclicked. While most kids were doing homework, I was building worlds. While I was doing homework, technically, during my International Commerce degree in Brazil, I was mostly making games anyway. The diploma exists. The games kept me sane.

I’ve always been super curious. The kind of person who gets genuinely excited about a new space telescope, listens to StarTalk and Mindscape on the commute, and has an embarrassing amount of brain storage dedicated to completely useless facts. If game development hadn’t grabbed me first, I’d probably have chased physics or engineering.

Growing up in a small beach town in Brazil in the 90s, access to geek culture was limited, I came to D&D and Magic: The Gathering later than most, and probably missed more classics than I’d like to admit. But what got through stuck hard. These days I only get to play when I’m back in Brazil visiting friends, which honestly makes those sessions feel like a small celebration.

At 18 I met the woman I’d marry. We’ve been together ever since, which I think says more about her patience than anything else.

For a while I had a “real” career at one of Brazil’s biggest banks. It paid well and stressed me out enormously. So in 2017, my wife and I made one of those decisions that sounds crazy: we packed up and moved to Italy. Best call we ever made.
After a fair struggle, Europe turned out to be exactly what we needed, new culture, new energy, and low cost airlines that makes weekend trips to somewhere beautiful almost embarrassingly easy. We travel whenever we get the chance, though our rescue shepherd dog Kirara has added some delightful logistical chaos to that. She’s full of energy and completely worth it.

These days I work in developer relations at a web game publishing platform, talking to game developers every day, a job that suits my personality a little too well. On the side I build my own games under the Bëor Games banner, usually starting at 5:30 AM before the rest of the world wakes up. I’ve shipped several games so far and I’m not slowing down.

Once a week I take a Japanese class with a school based in Tokyo, at 6 AM. It’s my fifth language, and honestly the hardest one yet.

I’m not a loud person. I wake up at 5:30 AM not to grind, but because that’s the quiet part of the day, just me, coffee, and whatever I’m building. No notifications, no noise. I find energy in stillness more than in crowds, and I tend to do my best thinking when the world hasn’t started yet.

That said, there’s always something new to learn, something to build, or something in the universe to get nerdy about. Usually all three at once.

If any of that sounds familiar, we’ll probably get along just fine.