About

Transformice is an online multiplayer game created by Mélanie Christin "Melibellule" (artwork and graphics) and Jean-Baptiste Lemarchand "Tigrounette" (game functions and mechanics). In the game, the player controls a mouse collecting pieces of cheese placed randomly around a map.. To complete their objective, players receive the help from the Shaman, a mouse who can summon objects and create buildings.^[1]

History

Transformice was inspired by the 2008 video games Aaaah! and Fish, made by "Tigrounette". In May 2010, along with the designer Mélanie Christin, "Tigrounette" released Transformice. In January 2015, the game was released on the Steam software distribution service.

Online Presence

Shortly after its release, the game became a trending topic on 4chan's /v/ (videogames) board. On June 19th, 2010, YouTuber EvilDaedalus uploaded a video titled "Meet the mouse", featuring a tutorial of the game. The video received over one million views in the next five years.

The game also inspired various fan animations, including "Transformice! For N00bs" which was uploaded to YouTube on June 30th, 2010 by the animator supersysscvi. In the next five years, the video gathered upwards of 550,000 views, On June 24th, 2013, YouTuber Cresselia Channel uploaded an extended animation titled "Transformice NOM NOM NOM," which garnered more than 700,000 views in two years.

Fandom

The game has developed a significant following, with a notable fanbase on sites like Tumblr,^[8] 4chan,^[9] and a subreddit with over 1,400 suscribers as of July 2015.^[4] The official Facebook page has upwards of 1,600,000 likes,^[6] and the Twitter account has more than 37,200 followers.^[7] On the artist community DeviantArt, searches for the keyword "transformice" yields over 33,000 results^[5] and a dedicated Wiki for the game has more than 420 pages. Additionally, the site Cheeseformice was created as an information database for the game.^[3]

Related Memes

Anvil God

Anvil God is the name given to a popular glitch consisted on pinning huge quantities of rotating anvils together as shaman, making them spin around and hitting nearby players.^[11] Used as a popular trolling method, the glitch is named after a comic by artist chiballo (shown bellow),^[12] which game creators tweeted about when reporting fanart.^[10]

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