Barvoleon

How to play

Barvoleon is online hide and seek in the style of Meccha Chameleon for up to eight players. Each round one of you hunts and the others get half a minute to soak up patterns from their surroundings, strike a pose and close their eyes. The hunter then looks for anything that does not fit — a wrong pattern, a shadow, open eyes or the slightest movement. A match has enough rounds for everyone to hunt once, bots fill empty seats and practice against robots has its own menu.

1. 1

   Aim at a wall, painting, rug or piece of furniture and click to soak up its pattern. Q switches what you paint: everything, head, body or legs. Legs in the wooden panelling, body and head in the wallpaper above it works well.

2. 2

   Patterns are projected in world space, so they match best from the front and pressed right against the wall: F puts your back to the wall. Poses 1–5 change your silhouette (lie on a rug, curl up between boxes, stand as a statue on an empty plinth) and E closes your glowing eyes.

3. 3

   The Camo meter shows how a hunter will see you. During the hunt the arcs around the crosshair show who suspects you and from where — moving is the most visible thing you can do, but sometimes running beats waiting for the shot.