Transformice

By: Derek Yu

On: June 20th, 2010

This is Transformice, and it is so much fun! There is an English version of the game available which now has quite a few people playing in it (the original game is in French). The video should explain the basics of how Transformice works, but there’s also a help menu available during the game.

Posted in Browser Games, MMOG, Multiplayer, Platformers, Unique / Bizarre, Videos

Skofo

Why does multiplayer make everything 500% more fun?
phubans

This game is crazy!
Lasrdracula

That looks like hilarious fun.
Zach

This is 4chan, manifested in mice.
hojo

THIS LOOKS FUCKING AWESOME
http://jamesgecko.com/ James

That video is the most hilarious thing I've seen all day.
bombboy

This video made me lose 10 minutes of worktime and also made me laugh with the retardededest face. YES
JR Hill

This game is so great.
http://twitter.com/AhmedSaker Ahmed Saker/أحمد صقر

Lol , Multiplayer games like this one shows how selfish people are , everybody wants the cheese for him self ….. :P
Seriously , this game kicks much ass
Laremere

Wow, that was fast from being posted on the forums to being front paged 0.o
lololo

i'1m glad this game is getting more attention, i just hope this don't fill the game with trolls.
FlashGordon

Isn't the game already filled with trolls?
Anarkex

This game looks incredibly frustrating.
Xab

Looks like the website is down (12:41 GMT-5:00)
joehonkie

What a great game. I love how different the levels are.
paxed

Several of the levels are frustrating (either wayyy too hard, depend on random luck, or devolve into push-others-out), the game is buggy, and OHMYGOD I'M A SHAMAN WHADDOIDO? EEEEEK! Oh, the other shaman already killed me.

Despite all of these things, it's a fun game.
Email

Rather than linking to the english .swf you could link to the english page at:
http://www.transformice.com/en/index.html
hide

It's a rebuild & updated version of “aaaaah”, but in way more buggy version.
Try it here : http://www.extinction.fr/aaaaah/
Robot Unicorn

Why is there not a tigsource room?

Everybody go to /room tigsource so we can start a game.
joehonkie

The walljump bug is laaaame.
Guest

It's not loading! =(
Don risotto

:( server's under heavy load maybe?
JR Hill

That's exactly what makes the game so glorious.
http://twitter.com/nameoftheyear Elliot T.

I swear off “Guile Theme” videos after losing all afternoon watching them, and then 2:40 happens.

I WISH I KNEW HOW TO QUIT YOU
Guile

Go home and be a family man.
Hakan

But I'm already a family man!
Guile

Are you man enough to fight with me?
Snow

This game is so simple and yet so epic. I've already traded hours of my life… trying to get cheese to a hole. Being the shaman is a blast if you know what you're doing. I just wonder if there is a wiki somewhere or something with ALL the controls in it. It would help with strategy.
Bleagle

Yeah, is there a full instruction? I figured out you can rotate objects with z + x, but how can you make a object invisible/background?
egasimus

space (:
Bleagle

At this time I already figured it out, nvl thank you : )
http://jamesgecko.com/ James

It's better than “aaaaah” in that the shaman can't just draw a box around half the people for no apparent reason. It takes a bit more skill, and the normal mice seem to play more of a role in ensuring everyones demise.
Snow

you can also do commands such as /ban name /title #, etc
Sicjake

It's so true
Lailoken42

a really crucial shaman skill is to anchor a plank with b tight against the ground, and then anchor another plank to it with c.
Cypress_dahlia

Wall jumping is crucial to coming first in some maps.
Kenzya

I like the mechanics of this game but I feel like it doesn't *quite* work. I haven't read anything about the state of the game; could be alpha or beta for all I know. It's a bit buggy, sure, but I think the menus could use some sprucing up as well as the controls. It took a really long time for me to get to be shaman and when I was I had about 1 – 3 seconds to learn the controls before all the mice killed themselves. It could be the level design I am also disappointed in. Maybe some levels bigger than a single screen would be nice with some actual puzzles rather than cheese in the air on a platform nobody can reach. There are some nice levels but there are equally bland and uninteresting levels.
gamecreator

You get to be shaman by working your way up in points. Everyone who gets to be shaman goes down to 0 points so eventually you'll be on top (assuming you're getting cheeses to your holes).

I agree that the game could be less buggy. I fell through planks a few times but I'm not sure if that's to code or lag or both.

I also agree that the level design could be a bit more creative as well. If I'd have an editor to play with, I'd have fun with it.
Secret Admirer

The game at its core is really fun, but it's plagued with a lot of issues. What really bugs me the most is that I still have no idea how to use the shaman correctly, it's pretty hard to earn your right to become one and when you get there you want to experiment with it so you can learn how to use him, but you're already in the middle of the action and you don't have the time to see how it all works, so you end up sucking all the time with it and not learning anything. The game desperately needs a single player / training / sandbox mode so you can experiment a ton of crazy shit before jumping into the multiplayer.
Kyo

What are you talking about dude, if you want to train just make a new empty room for yourself.

Besides, shouting at noob shamens is the best part.
Secret Admirer

Oh, I didn't knew that. Apparently it's just typing /room [roomname] to join or create a new room. I expected something like this should to be accessible from the main menu.
Seethepox

This game is incredibly fun. Being the shamen is also a blast once you get the hang of it. In most cases you can get by with an anchored board (b) and extension boards (c). Practicing a few basics in your own room is a good idea. Once you get the basics, you can learn a lot by watching what other shamen do to clear a level. I think the controls are fine as they are, the menus could use some polish and some sound fx would be nice. The occasional glitchs on some levels add to the chaos and fun of the game for me. I also like how they keep adding items to the shop and other nice touches (like ducking). This is a great game, now stop playing so I can get on a server….
Cypress_dahlia

IMO, what this game needs:

– Full set of controls (ala picture tutorial) for Shammies.
– BIGGER SERVER
– Reduced lag. For some reason, this game lags a ridiculous amount for being so simple. I can play much more complex games without lag but this one is just…over 20 mice in a room and you're skipping frames already.
– Removing shammy from levels that do not require shammies. This just makes it so whoever has bum luck enough to be shammy that round is last by default. And removing that one level where you have to WAIT for the timer to hit 1:00 for cheese to appear. That's just tedious.

Also, if the timer is below :20 and shammy dies, it shoots back up to :20. This should be fixed. And /ban should be more accessible. I think the only reason people don't ban griefers and trolls is because it's a pain in the ass to type out /ban [username]. If there was a [vote ban] or something on click, I think more people would rise to the occasion, since they seem to hate griefers so much but do NOTHING about it but QQ.
joehonkie

Using exploits to come in first doesn't make exploits a good thing.
Guiltfeeder566

Its still in .24, it'll be a while yet.
bombboy

You make it sound like sequence breaking made super metroid a worse game

pro tip: sequence breaking MADE super metroid

well, I personally enjoy the shit out of walljump, it's easy enough to be fun! It's also one of the ONLY challenging aspects about trying to come first O: the rest is just running, mostly
bombboy

Not all true, 4chan isn't usually this fun/awesome ONLY

but I wish it were!
Guest

It's a skill, just like bunnyhopping/strafe jumping in Quake or infinite in Marvel vs. Capcom 2.

Step up your game and learn to do it, then the playing field will be even.
Guest

There is no need to 'fix” it. Doing so would just dumb down the game.
Guest

There should be a vote count shown on the chat too for bans. That way people would know that a ban vote was actually going on rather than trying to figure out if people are joking or not when they say “LOL BAN”