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http://transformice.com/en

Transformice was originally a french game, and has now been translated and has two english servers up and running. The objective of the game is to obtain the cheese, and get it back into your hidey-hold. Simple enough?

That's why there are twists. There are the mice, which get the cheese and bring it back, and there is the Shaman. The Shaman is the mouse that can summon things and help the other mice get to the cheese and back. Of course, they don't have to, as you can see in the video.

So anyway, some problems of the game is that the site experiences high traffic, so your browser may load the site slowly. Another problem is that there is no clear line between a glitch and a feature. I say that because most of the things that make the game fun weren't intended to be in the game. Conversely, most of the things that WERE intended to be in the game detract from it.

Now for the mechanics of the game that you'll need to know. You'll want to REGISTER an account, not use the first box it gives you upon successful loading of the game. That's for going in as a guest, and guests can't talk in the chat, nor can their winnings be saved. After that, it'll send you to a random official room (as far as I know, the official rooms are all numbered up to some point). To change rooms, do /room [roomname] in the chat, replacing the brackets with desired roomname.

Another thing you'll need to know is how to be a Shaman. It's not random. To the right of the chatbox, you'll see a points ranking. That is for choosing the next Shaman. It goes by highest points. After the current shaman, the mouse with the next highest points becomes the next shaman for the next map. The shaman of the previous map gets their points reset. However, it adds 1 point for each mouse that got the cheese back. Some maps allow for two shamans, pink and blue. In this case, if mice go into Pink's hidey-hole, then Pink gets points. If they go into Blue's hidey-hole, Blue gets points. Of course, you get to pick and choose (unless either shaman kills the other shaman and blocks their hole).

My IGN is Kainerok, and I frequent whatever server my other friends are in. I usually check server gg2 first when I get on. If no friends are online, then I go to room 42.

Oh wow, I've played this before. Strange game and I felt like an idiot playing it, but it was strangely fun.

Omfg this game looks hilarious. I'll have to try it sometime.

Not sure how its funny but I know I would not like the game. I dislike platforming and jumping objectives already. This makes it worse.

Quote from: ARTgames on July 01, 2010, 03:17:02 PM
Not sure how its funny but I know I would not like the game. I dislike platforming and jumping objectives already. This makes it worse.

Seriously?

Wow.

Quote from: ARTgames on July 01, 2010, 03:17:02 PM
Not sure how its funny but I know I would not like the game. I dislike platforming and jumping objectives already. This makes it worse.

Have you ever played the game that this forum was made for?

Oh, and you should learn how to walljump. Wanna post your IGNs?

Quote from: Mr Pwnage on July 01, 2010, 09:54:23 PM

Quote from: ARTgames on July 01, 2010, 03:17:02 PM
Not sure how its funny but I know I would not like the game. I dislike platforming and jumping objectives already. This makes it worse.

Have you ever played the game that this forum was made for?

I don't mind this game so much because the platforming part is not hard. But games like Mario I don't like so much because I'm just not good at them.

Playing this game, pretty chaotic..
ign- Ceroblitz

I'm Trok, as per usual,

Quote from: Mr Pwnage on July 01, 2010, 09:54:23 PM

Quote from: ARTgames on July 01, 2010, 03:17:02 PM
Not sure how its funny but I know I would not like the game. I dislike platforming and jumping objectives already. This makes it worse.

Have you ever played the game that this forum was made for?

There's not really much platforming in SO... There are platforms to be sure, but it doesn't really require any skill or have much of anything to do with gameplay. Whereas in this game (or as Art pointed out, Super Mario Bros.) platforming is a central gameplay element.

This game looks pretty fun. I played it for a couple minutes just as a guest to try it out. I was afraid the shamans would always be dicks as in the videos, but I guess the shaman always switches to different people in the room so there's a chance someone who actually wants to help the mice gets to be shaman. So it was pretty fun watching the shaman try to build contraptions to let the mice cross gaps or get up on high platforms, and then swarming the contraptions so that the shaman had a difficult time even building it.

It's funny because this game just shows how ridiculous mob mentality is. The swarm of mice is essentially controlled by a mob whose singular mentality is "Get cheese! Bring to hidey hole!!!" and for some reason all logical and rational thought is thrown away. There's potential for some great team building effort to happen... but it doesn't. I guess it might be different if, there was speech chat in the game and a smaller group of mice. People would be able to talk out the solution and guide eachother as they go along. Eh, just an idea...

Edit: Signed up an account. I'm Lingus

You should see room 1 someday. It's always filled. If not, there's at least 90 people in it. Gotta love the levels that enable mouse collision.

Quote from: Lingus on July 02, 2010, 12:49:43 PM

Quote from: Mr Pwnage on July 01, 2010, 09:54:23 PM

Quote from: ARTgames on July 01, 2010, 03:17:02 PM
Not sure how its funny but I know I would not like the game. I dislike platforming and jumping objectives already. This makes it worse.

Have you ever played the game that this forum was made for?

There's not really much platforming in SO... There are platforms to be sure, but it doesn't really require any skill or have much of anything to do with gameplay. Whereas in this game (or as Art pointed out, Super Mario Bros.) platforming is a central gameplay element.

This game looks pretty fun. I played it for a couple minutes just as a guest to try it out. I was afraid the shamans would always be dicks as in the videos, but I guess the shaman always switches to different people in the room so there's a chance someone who actually wants to help the mice gets to be shaman. So it was pretty fun watching the shaman try to build contraptions to let the mice cross gaps or get up on high platforms, and then swarming the contraptions so that the shaman had a difficult time even building it.

It's funny because this game just shows how ridiculous mob mentality is. The swarm of mice is essentially controlled by a mob whose singular mentality is "Get cheese! Bring to hidey hole!!!" and for some reason all logical and rational thought is thrown away. There's potential for some great team building effort to happen... but it doesn't. I guess it might be different if, there was speech chat in the game and a smaller group of mice. People would be able to talk out the solution and guide eachother as they go along. Eh, just an idea...

Edit: Signed up an account. I'm Lingus

Well it seems to me that people who play the game don't play for the sake of accomplishing the task at hand usually, it's more just to get a good laugh at how ridiculous the whole mess is.

IGN: GeneralWartz

That's true, though I think there is a bit of a tendency to actually try to play the game and get a good score.

Btw, anyone else have trouble with the site. Half the time the page doesn't load, and sometimes when it loads I'll get to typing my account in and everything and then the page reloads itself.

Yeah, it looks as though there's something wrong with the site itself, not just the English version. Anyways, Lingus, The person that is on top with points(The second window from the right at the bottom) gets to be the next shaman, or one of the shamans. The game's full, but I am horrible when I'm shaman. Ask Ceroblitz, he knows the extent of my abilities as a shaman in the game. xD