Basketball is getting the Pokémon Go treatment in NBA All-World, Niantic’s augmented reality mobile game. The location-based game has augmented reality elements and the developer describes it as “NBA lifestyle meets the real-world metaverse”.

The gameplay will be familiar to Pokémon Go fans. In the free-to-play game, you will be able to collect star NBA players, customise them with items picked up from visits to real-world locations, and take on other players in one-on-one matches at neighbourhood courts and other locations.

According to Polygon, the game will use a database of “hundreds of thousands” of real-life courts and other basketball-playing locations; players will also find stops at sporting goods stores or convenience stores. Swinging by those could pick up a new pair of virtual shoes for an NBA All-World street baller or top off their stamina for the next game.

“We’re enveloping the world around you into a basketball universe, or what I personally like to call turning the real world into a basketball theme park. Now, places and objects in the real world will become video game items; the convenience store near you has become a location to pick up stamina for your NBA player, the sporting goods store around the corner is the place to pick up the latest brand name shoe to customise your players,” senior producer Marcus Matthews said in a presentation for the press.

All World is coming to iOS and Android, and Niantic says it’s expected to roll out in full during the next NBA season. Besides existing games like Pokémon Go and Ingress, the developer launched Pikmin Bloom last year, is working on a virtual pet game called Peridot, and also has a Transformers game in development.