Arrow: The arrow allows you to lead mice and shows them where to go.
Spirit: The spirit is a little explosion that can be spawned anywhere on the map. It is mainly used to propel mice for short distance.
Balloon: The balloon is an object that floats until it comes in contact with an other object. It can be tied to any other objects or mice thanks to the anchors and makes them fly too.
Rune: When it’s spawned, the rune will cross the map along the same lines as the arrow until it comes in contact with an other object. In that case, it’ll push it. Runes can be tied to any other objects to push them in accordance with the shaman’s wishes.
Little box / Big box: Mice can climb on them.
Anvil: The anvil is a really heavy item, it’s mainly use to weigh the other items down to prevent them from moving. Because of its weight, it’s hard for mice to move it.
Little plank / Large plank: Mice can climb on planks. Planks are mainly use to build bridges and several other structures to allow mice to obtain the cheese.
Ball: A simple ball that bounces.
Canon: Canons share the same properties with anvils, the only difference resides in its movement. Cannons are shot in the direction of their arrow and won’t stop until they come in contact with a blocked item. Shamans mainly use them to get rid of useless items or annoying mice.
Conjuration: The conjuration is directly spawned without any waiting period and it’s composed of small blue blocks that you draw with your cursor. These blocks disappear after 10 seconds and mice can walk on it. The conjuration is available for only some few maps.
Portals: Portals are two items that allow mice to teleport from one to the other one. Mice can go in or out either portal.
Anchors allow shaman to tie several spawned objects. The only way to create one of these anchors is to push C, V, B, N or J keys after selecting an item and before summoning it. If you push these keys several times, you’ll also be able to choose the anchor’s position on the item !
There are 4 different types of anchors and each of them has its own specific use :
– C – Yellow Anchor – This anchor needs to be attached to another item and make this item unable to rotate. It’s mainly used to build bridges and several buildings.
– B – Red Anchor – This anchor can be directly attached to the map or to any other item, but it can only be selected with a plank. Items are limited to a single red anchor and can’t be attached to any item that has a red anchor. Its main function is to rotate, and that’s not all! Red anchors have an other nice function: they can be placed on a dynamic item in order to prevent them to move!
– V – Blue Anchor – This anchor needs to be attached to another item. It hinges the item.
– N and J – Blue Motorized Anchors – These anchors are to be attached to another item. They share the same properties with the blue anchor but the difference resides in the fact they can rotate autoA ghost item is easily recognizable thanks to its transparency and its blue shade. These items work like the cloud ground: mice can go through them but items can’t. Each item can become a ghost item (except spirit, portals and conjuration). To ghost an item, press the spacebar after selecting it from the menu.
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You’re now a “pro” which means you saved more than 1.000 mice! You know all the in and out about the shaman and you’re certainly looking for some new challenges! The Hard Mode has been made for you!
Click the feather next to the menu (link) and select “Use shaman hard mode” (link). The first thing you’ll notice immediatly is your new shaman skin! Your tatoo’s color is now gold, but you’ll also be able to change it now via this same window. (link)
But those aren’t its only features. Hard mode shamans can’t summon any spirit nor use any red anchor anymore! Nonetheless they can create a totem to help them. Click on “Edit your Totem” (link) to create yours !
A totem is a pre-made build that can be summoned once per map. This building can be anything : it can be decorative like this “mouse totem” or more useful like this bridge. Once you saved your totem and once you’re the shaman, you can spawn your totem thanks to this icon.
OTHER
I. Different rooms
There are three different types of rooms :
Your mouse will always spawn in a public room, they are easily recognizable since they are numbered room from 1 and tend towards infinity (the number of room adapts with the number of mice playing). Public rooms play vanilla maps (maps created by Tigrounette and numbered from 0 to 137) and maps created by players via the map editor.
Vanilla rooms only plays vanilla map (maps created by Tigrounette and numbered from 0 to 137). Each room’s name containing the word “vanilla” will automatically be a vanilla room.
For mice more familiar to the game and for mice who learned various complicated techniques, there are alsobootcamp rooms! In these rooms, there is no shaman and maps are complicated but still completable alone! Each turn lasts 6 minutes and mice respawn every 15 seconds if they’ve die. Statistics don’t count in bootcamp rooms.
II. Commands
/room: This command allows you to switch to a random room. Type /room followed by the room name you want to go in: type /room 10 if you want to go to the room 10 or /room fromage if you want to go to the room fromage.
/bootcamp: It works like /room but will send you in a bootcamp room.
/vanilla: It works like /room but will send you in a vanilla room.
/editor: This command will send you to the map editor.
/totem: This command will send you to the totem editor.
/wnickname: This command allows you to whisper a message to another mouse.
/friendnickname: This command allows you to add “nickname” in your friends list.
/profilenickname: This command allows you to see the profile of the player “nickname“.
/mutenickname: This command allows you to totaly ignore a player’s messages. You won’t receive any more whispers from him nor will you see him talking in the public chat.
/bannickname: Players have the ability to exclude a player from the game for an hour via the popular vote. This command is taken into consideration if the player is in your room. Warning: any abuse will be punished.
/title: This command lists the titles you’ve earned by bringing cheese back or rescuing mice. To choose one of these titles, type /title followed by the number of the title you want. For example if you want the title “Little Mouse” you have to type /title 0.
/silence: This command lets you to toggle your whispers.
/facebook: This command will open the Transformice’s facebook page in your web browser. It’ll also give you 20 cheese the first time you use it.
By donating, small or huge amounts, the following persons have been a huge help in the early days of Transformice, and we won’t be able to thank them enough for that.
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Transformice is a multiplayer game, where you are a small mouse out to get a cheese and bring the cheese back to the hole.
The game includes a physics engine, so interactions between players are realistic.
Each round lasts 2 minutes max, and in order to help the 20 or so mice-players to get the cheese, a player will be chosen to be the powerful shaman and will be able to spawn different objects to guide the mice.
The shaman is the mouse who guides all the other mice to the cheese and then to the hole thanks to several objects he/she can spawn. Your nickname will always be yellow while the shaman’s name is blue. The shaman is also easily recognizable thanks to its tatoos and its feather.
The physics engine allows you to have fun with some BALLS and many several different actions/objects.
Interactions between players are realistic and in real time!
Bring some cheese back to the hole or save some mice while you are a shaman to unlock exclusive titles. Transformice can also be a competitive game, you’ll win some titles if you’re the first one to bring the cheese back and/or if you win some events/contests!
Each cheese you’ll bring back to hole will give you one cheese to spend in the shop! Use them wisely to buy some items or to create some maps.
Transformice is a platform game; so some maps have special characteristics like this one where everyone is a shaman! (Christmas special map.)
2010 : This was the first Transformice’s event! Mice could fly across the map 666 on a broomstick and tried to catch the cheese, which teleported randomly on the map.
2011 :
One mouse was randomly turned into a bat and had to infect the other mice by touching them. Mice could “meep!” by pressing spacebar to repel bats and bats couldn’t get the cheese.This map was the first side-scrolling map.
Items
CHRISTMAS EVENTS
2010 :
Some presents were scattered about the vanilla maps and mice had to gather them by completing the map with the present. These gifts could be given to the other mice or could be exchanged for items on map 888.
Snow was also introduced for the first time during this event and mice could throw some snowball by ducking.
2011 :
Like the old christmas event, presents were featured on vanilla maps and by clicking them mice could unlock a new special item, a random item from the shop, a cheese or nothing. Mice could also kiss the other mice under the mistletoe to unlock some titles. Grass grounds also became snowy grounds and many decorations had snow on them!
But that wasn’t the only new addition! A special map (800) could appear randomly and all mice had shaman abilities and were also dressed up as Santa.
Items
VALENTINE’S DAY EVENTS
2011 : One mice was randomly turned into a cupid and had to throw arrows at 3 mice to make them pink. These three mice could exchange gifts with the other pink mice and received gifts from the others. Mice unlocked titles by giving presents to each other.
2012 :
This event’s special map was also a scrolling map. At the end of this map, mice entered in a romantic restaurant and could click on one of the chairs to sit on it. Kissing the mouse in front of you 4 times would give it a present.
Items
APRIL FOOL’S DAY EVENT
2011 : Also known as Fishing event, this event consisted of fishing on the map 777. The reward was a new item or a simple cheese. Mice could win 2 items per aquarium available.
Items
EASTER EVENT
2011 :
As the the christmas event, eggs were located on vanilla maps and mice had to gather them by completing the map with the egg. Items were unlocked from 10 to 300 eggs, and they could be regular or new shop items.
Items
CARNIVAL EVENT
2012 :
On this special map (555), mice had to throw some confetti by pressing E to unlock items. The map has now been removed like all the other special maps but mice are still able to throw confetti in game!
Tigrounette (or Tig for short) was born on February the 22nd of 1984, and is the guru of all Transformice’s code. He can debug the map system while coding new features for an event, and making troll jokes in the same time. He likes good cuisine, though often too lazy to cook himself.
During his free time, he codes small games for fun, and has more than 40 unfinished games into his hard drive.
He plays tons of videogames, to the dismay of his Steam account and wallet. His favorite games are, in no particular order : Dark Age of Camelot, World of Warcraft, League of Legends, Portal, Left 4 Dead.
His sister Ley was an admin during the early days of Transformice’s life, helping with hirings the first moderators. She since left, in order to take care of her newborn.
Melibellule
Occupation
Lead Designer
Speciality
Repairing herself her 22 years old car, Flash CS5, not throwing away old junk (drives Tig crazy at the office)
Melibellule (or Meli for short) was born on July the 24th of 1986, and is the designer of almost everything that isn’t text. She learns fast, and has a particular interest into debug, optimization and coding, which made her work a lot with Tig and become the favorite graphic designer among the developpers at her previous work.
She loves to read a lot, play videogames, and take hot baths. Her favorite authors are Anne Mc Caffrey, Robin Hobb, Orson Scott Card, Dan Simmons, George R.R. Martin. Her favorite videogames are Portal, Left 4 Dead, Pokémon, Super Smash Bros Melee, Animal Crossing, Sonic Generations, Anno 2070, Dungeon Defenders.
Sydoline
Occupation
Community Manager
Speciality
Staying zen in all circumstances, being shy, cookies
Sydoline (or Sydo for short) was born on June the 29th of 1990, and takes care of everything community-related. From organizing events to managing the moderation team, she works a lot to make Transformice a better and safer place to be at.
Among weird things, she doesn’t like chocolate, but likes to bake cookies. She’s an overall adorable, very shy person, and soothes anyone working around her with her omnious zenitude.
Loukno
Occupation
Marketing Manager
Speciality
Phoning master, understanding law talking, soup-like mashed potatoes
Loukno (no short name this time) was born on August the 6th of 1989, and is here for an internship of six months in our company Atelier 801. She takes cares of everything marketing-related, like ads sales, IRL events, or answering the phone.
About Atelier 801
Atelier 801 is a company founded in October 2011 by Tigrounette (Jean-Baptiste Le Marchand) and Melibellule(Mélanie Christin).
Its purpose is to rally players from all over the world around cute and fun free online games.
Its first game ever created was Transformice.
There mice ally to gather as much cheese as possible.
In the near future, Atelier 801 will develop more multiplayers games.
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