What this site is
This is a field guide to Mottle — Hide & Seek, the camouflage game by Star Lord. It exists because the game is easy to start and hard to describe: the rules fit in a sentence, but the timing, the detection model and the terrain all deserve more than a sentence.
Every page is written for a player who has already opened the game and wants to understand it better, plus a shorter path for anyone who has not opened it yet. The home page puts the game first, because that is what most visitors came for.
How the facts were checked
Four kinds of input went into this guide, and they are weighted differently when they disagree.
- 01Creator listing
- The publisher's public page for Mottle — Hide & Seek is the authority for the title, creator credit, publication date, access status and genre tags.
- 02Published game description
- The tagline and feature summary on that listing describe the drag-to-run, release-to-blend loop, the light cones, the fireflies and the Alert meter.
- 03The game itself
- Mechanical details — round timers, firefly counts, Seeker counts, cone width, Alert behaviour — were read from the public build and rounded for readability.
- 04Our own play
- Terrain notes, routing advice and the sample round in the strategy guide are editorial observations. They are labelled as opinion, not as fact.
Where the game comes from
Mottle — Hide & Seek is credited to Star Lord and published on 8x.gg on September 22, 2026. Access is listed as free. The creator listing is the place to check for current availability, account prompts or changes to the build.
The play area on this site embeds that original build from its own host. It stays unloaded until you press Play, at which point your browser talks directly to the game server.
What we do not claim
Being explicit about this matters more than it sounds, because a fan site with a good domain can easily look official.
- We are not the creator, the publisher or the platform. Nothing here is an official statement.
- We do not host, mirror, modify or redistribute the game. The play area loads the original host.
- We do not offer downloads, APKs, installers or modified builds, because none have been published.
- We do not publish ratings, award claims, player counts or download totals, and we do not invent quotes.
- We do not promise that the game will run on your device or network. Platform and policy decisions are outside our control.
- Numbers read from the build are approximate and may change if the game is re-tuned.
Credits and ownership
The game, its artwork, its audio and its name belong to their respective rights holders. The illustrations on this site are original vector artwork drawn to explain mechanics — they are not screenshots, and they are not a replacement for the game.
The written guides, diagrams and the site design are original work made for this domain. Nothing here is copied from another Mottle page, and no other Mottle guide is affiliated with this one.
How the site is built
mottlegame.net is a statically generated Next.js site, deployed to Cloudflare Pages. There is no server process, no database, no account system and no contact form. Pages are plain HTML delivered from a CDN, and the only executable JavaScript is the small amount needed for the Play button and the FAQ accordions.
That architecture is also a privacy decision: with no backend, there is nothing to store about you. The details are on the privacy page.
Review log
- 2026-11-15First publication. Game facts cross-checked against the creator listing and the public build; all guides reviewed together.
If the game is updated, mechanics described here may drift. The creator listing always takes priority over this guide.