Media Blog 1: Transformice, Amazingly Addictive

 Transformice is an addictive flash game released in June of 2010, and it has become amazingly popular since.  It went from two servers: a French and single English  to having five: a French, two English, a Russian, and a Brazilian server.


The premise of the game is that you are a mouse, and together with your fellow mice you must gather the cheese and get it to the hole. 


With cheese, you can buy hats to wear to make your mouse more unique, or use it to make custom maps for other mice to play.

               Image courtesy of the Transformice Wiki



Of course there are obstacles, this is where the shaman comes in.  On most maps, the shaman will be responsible to build things to allow the mice to get the cheese and score.
On some maps, it is possible for the mice to get the cheese without the shaman's help, and the shaman can either make it easier, or choose to make it more interesting by adding his own obstacles.

The game itself is largely addictive, and since the introduction of a map editor where users can make their own maps, there is almost always something new to play.

The game features a somewhat realistic physics system, but every now and then it will glitch and the laws of physics will be disregarded, which the players have termed "French Physics".  Oftentimes they make the game much more entertaining, as boards suddenly fly into the air unexpectedly.  Such glitches have given rise to one popular entity known as Anvil God, where many rotating anvils are placed near each other and flail around.

The game is quite simple, but is very addictive and fun, and I'd recommend checking it out, even for a few minutes.  Any questions can be directed to the Transformice Wiki.