BAD POSE

Blending into a crowd of animals is easy. Acting like one is the tricky part.

Bad Pose is an online multiplayer party game. Become a hider, create your own animal poses and animations, and blend in with the herd to fool the hunters. Or pick up a weapon, watch for suspicious movements, and uncover the players hiding among the animals.

Of course, you can also create some not-so-natural moves and make them “contagious,” teaching nearby animals to act just as suspiciously. Just don’t get too carried away. The hunters are still watching.

Here, you can…

• Teach yourself how to be an animal. Move your limbs, turn your head, and string poses together into animations. Walking, jumping, a performance nobody can explain, or a move that sends another character flying—you create it yourself.

• Act like nothing’s wrong. Watch how the other animals move, matching their steps and pauses. A hunter looking your way? Hopefully, that last step looked natural.

• Be a bad influence on the herd. Spread your custom animations to nearby animals. When they start acting strangely too, will the hunters still be able to spot you?

• Test with tools. Decide by watching. As a hunter, earn coins through tasks and minigames around the map, buy ammunition and disruptive items, and look for clues in the animals’ reactions. Think before you shoot: catching the wrong animal costs points.

• Get caught, switch sides, keep playing. Join the hunters and track down the friends you were hiding alongside moments ago. Now it’s your turn to watch them perform.

• Perfect your masterpiece in the lab. Take your time creating, tweaking, and saving animation templates without a round timer ticking down. Then bring them into rooms that allow templates.

(The game is still in development. The visuals and interface shown may change as development progresses.)