History VideoGame / Transformice

* WreakingHavok: It uses the [[http://www.box2d.org/ Box2D]] engine, which can usually result in a lot of unintentionally funny situations. Mice catapulting off of planks into space because [[TheLastStraw a little too much weight is on it?]] Boards freaking the hell out and turning into {{Eldritch Abomination}}s because of a misplaced attachment? Those are some of the ''tamer'' things that can happen in this game.

* FacePalm: One of the newer emoticons is that.

* OcularGushers: The "/cry" command.

* RedHerring: Sometimes [[MemeticMutation the cheese is a lie]].

* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: The mice.

* SlashCommand
* SpringJump: There's a shaman skill that allows shamans to spawn 3 springs (1 if they're on divine mode) that allow mice to jump pretty high (especially if there're two or even three springs directly on top of each other).

* TrialAndErrorGameplay

* WreakingHavok: It uses the [[http://www.box2d.org/ Box2D]] engine.

* CartoonCheese

* FloatingPlatforms

* BlackoutBasement: [[strike:Nightmare]] "Nighttime Mode" maps.

A downloadable, free-to-play version of the game is also available on Main/{{Steam}}. It also has a WebAnimation series based off it using the ''blender'' engine, which can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFlHHPgPNqOgOu-9CVtke6w here]].

A downloadable, free-to-play version of the game is also available on Main/{{Steam}}. It also has an animated WebSeries based off it, which can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFlHHPgPNqOgOu-9CVtke6w here]].

A downloadable, free-to-play version of the game is also available on Main/{{Steam}}. It also has an animated series based off it.

A downloadable, free-to-play version of the game is also available on Main/{{Steam}}. An animated adaption of the series is also in the works.

A downloadable, free-to-play version of the game is also available on Main/{{Steam}}.

* AmbidextrousSprite: Monocles, ribbons, eyepatches etc. switch from side to side depending on which way the mouse is facing.

* AscendedGlitch: The walljump and airjump. A good portion of the user made levels require people to use these in order to win, especially boot camp maps.

* CriticalEncumbranceFailure: Caused by chocolate ground. Without cheese, you can run across a bit slower than normal. With cheese, you aren't going anywhere.

* EscortMission: The entire premise of the game. Interestingly, all the escortees are controlled by other players, proving that real intelligence performs no better in these than artificial one.

* FrictionlessIce: Annoyingly, ice walls can't be walljumped off of, which is especially deadly when jumping from one thin ice spike to another.

** The upside-down levels are no longer upside down though, and it doesn't seem like they will ever be upside down again...

* [[{{Griefer}} Griefing]]: If a Shaman is a dick, there is not much the other mice can do about it. It is also possible on collision maps to screw over other players.

* HolidayMode: Starting around late beta, the game has themed levels pop up around certain holidays and will give existing levels holiday themed makeovers, as well as few Holiday themed {{Mini Game}}s that pop up at random in between the levels you can gimmick items from [[note]]such as eggs on Easter, candy on Halloween[[/note]] that you can trade in to get holiday themed prizes such as ability to turn into a snow mouse, vampire mouse, and so on. While this includes obvious stuff like Halloween and Christmas, it's also done stuff for Easter, April Fools day... And oddly, considering it's not a holiday, school themed levels and {{Mini Game}}s around the time most major school systems start back up after summer vacation. Interestingly enough, it's possible to keep holiday themed items well passed the event in question, though you won't be able to win any more of the "consumable" items until next year when it starts up again.

* LeeroyJenkins : The only way to describe the tactics of the "regular" mice at times.

* LevelGrinding: In later updates, taking cheese back to the hole or, as the shaman, the amount of mice you save gives you experience which levels up your shaman rank, which gives you a point you can put into a shaman ability. Taking cheese back successfully gives you ten EXP, while the amount of EXP you get as the shaman is directly proportional to the amount of mice that make it back to the hole that round. [[note]][[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything As to prevent people from creating their own private room and power grinding as the shaman]][[/note]] At first, it isn't so bad, but starting around levels 25-30, it can take anywhere up to 600-1000 EXP to level up. With no way to boost your EXP gain. Hope you have a lot of free time on your hands...

* RevenueEnhancingDevices: Starting around late beta, you can buy strawberries with real world money, which in turn can be used to buy costumes for your mouse. While you ''can'' get costumes by collecting cheese normally, it takes ''for freaking ever'' to do so, since costume items cost a lot of cheese and usually cost far less strawberries by comparison. [[note]]For example, a costume item that costs 1,000 or so cheese will likely cost around 50-100 strawberries, which is around a dollar in real life US currency.[[/note]] The ''Main/{{Steam}}'' version also allows you to use money from your Steam wallet to buy strawberries, too.

* SpringJump: There's a shaman skill that allows shamans to spawn 3 springs (1 if they're on divine mode) that allow mice to jump pretty high (especially if there's two or even three springs directly on top of each other).

* {{Microtransactions}}: Starting around late beta, you can buy strawberries with real world money, which in turn can be used to buy costumes for your mouse. While you ''can'' get costumes by collecting cheese normally, it takes ''for freaking ever'' to do so, since costume items cost a lot of cheese and usually cost far less strawberries by comparison. [[note]]For example, a costume item that costs 1,000 or so cheese will likely cost around 50-100 strawberries, which is around a dollar in real life US currency.[[/note]] The ''Main/{{Steam}}'' version also allows you to use money from your Steam wallet to buy strawberries, too.

* LevelGrinding: In later updates, taking cheese back to the hole or, as the shaman, the amount of mice you save gives you experience which levels up your shaman rank, which gives you a point you can put into a shaman ability. Taking cheese gives you ten EXP, while the amount of EXP you get as the shaman is directly proportional to the amount of mice that make it back to the hole that round. [[note]][[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything As to prevent people from creating their own private room and power grinding as the shaman]][[/note]] At first, it isn't so bad, but starting around levels 25-30, it can take anywhere up to 600-1000 EXP to level up. With no way to boost your EXP gain. Hope you have a lot of free time on your hands...

* LevelEditor

* FanNickname: Some maps revolve around the mice trying to avoid rapidly spinning planks in the air (but the planks remain in the air thanks to the magic of red anchors), and these planks were affectionately given the nickname of "Fan God", "Plank God" or "Windmill God"
** Anvil God and Anvil Snake are also examples

* {{Microtransactions}}: You can buy strawberries with real world money, which in turn can be used to buy costumes for your mouse. While you ''can'' get costumes by collecting cheese normally, it takes ''for freaking ever'' to do so, since costume items cost a lot of cheese and usually cost far less strawberries by comparison. [[note]]For example, a costume item that costs 1,000 or so cheese will likely cost around 50-100 strawberries, which is around a dollar in real life US currency.[[/note]] The ''Main/{{Steam}}'' version also allows you to use money from your Steam wallet to buy strawberries, too.

* AllegedlyFreeGame: {{Downplayed}}. You can't buy anything with real currency that will give you an edge in the game, but you can buy strawberries with real world money, which in turn can be used to buy costumes for your mouse. While you ''can'' get costumes by collecting cheese normally, it takes ''for freaking ever'' to do so, since costume items cost a lot of cheese and usually cost far less strawberries by comparison. [[note]]For example, a costume item that costs 1,000 or so cheese will likely cost around 50-100 strawberries, which is around a dollar in real life US currency.[[/note]] The ''Main/{{Steam}}'' version also allows you to use money from your Steam wallet to buy strawberries, too.

* AllegedlyFreeGame: {{Downplayed}}. You can't buy anything with real currency that will give you an edge in the game, but you can buy strawberries with real world money, which in turn can be used to buy costumes for your mouse. While you ''can'' get costumes by collecting cheese normally, it takes ''for freaking ever'' to do so, since costume items cost a lot of cheese, and usually cost far less strawberries by comparison. [[note]]For example, a costume item that costs 1,000 or so cheese will likely cost around 50-100 strawberries, which is around a dollar in real life US currency.[[/note]] The ''Main/{{Steam}}'' version also allows you to use money from your Steam wallet to buy strawberries, too.

* GameMod: Starting with the ''Main/{{Steam}}'' release, people can now create their own games using the Transformice engine to be submitted to the ''Module'' mode. People have even managed to create Transformice ''VideoGame/PropHunt'' and ''VideoGame/{{Murder}}'' using this.

* GameMod: Starting with the ''Main/{{Steam}}'' release, people can now create their own games using the Transformice engine to be submitted to the ''Modular'' mode. People have even managed to create Transformice ''VideoGame/PropHunt'' and ''VideoGame/{{Murder}}'' using this.

* ItAmusedMe: It might as well be named ''Trolling: The Game''.

* HolidayMode: Starting around late beta, the game has themed levels pop up around certain holidays and will give existing levels holiday themed makeovers as well start up a new gimmick that you can get prizes from, and a few Holiday themed {{Mini Game}}s that pop up at random in between the levels you can get said gimmick items from. While this includes obvious stuff like Halloween and Christmas, it's also done stuff for Easter, April Fools day... And oddly, considering it's not a holiday, school themed levels and {{Mini Game}}s around the time most major school systems start back up after summer vacation. Interestingly enough, it's possible to keep holiday themed items well passed the event in question, though you won't be able to win any more of the "consumable" items until next year when it starts up again.

** Imagine if the other players had a deliberate means of knocking other players and shamans off precarious platforms and messing up careful structural design, including pushing invisible objects. Well, thanks to the likely seasonal addition of snowballs, they did, but they have been removed.

* BreatherLevel: Starting with later updates, certain levels are added that don't have an overall goal like collecting cheese to them or such, and mostly seem to be there so one can chat or play around without accidentally falling into a bottomless pit.

* BottomlessPit

* AllegedlyFreeGame: {{Downplayed}}. You can't buy anything with real currency that will give you an edge in the game, but you can buy strawberries with real world money, which in turn can be used to buy costumes for your mouse. While you ''can'' get costumes by collecting cheese normally, it takes ''for freaking ever'' to do so, since costume items cost a lot of cheese, and usually cost far less strawberries by comparison. [[note]]For example, a costume item that costs 1,000 or so cheese will likely cost around 50-100 strawberries, which is around a one dollar in real life US currency.[[/note]] The ''Main/{{Steam}}'' version also allows you to use money from your Steam wallet to buy strawberries, too.

* AllegedlyFreeGame: {{Downplayed}}. You can't buy anything with real currency that will give you an edge in the game, but you can buy strawberries with real world money, which in turn can be used to buy costumes for your mouse. While you ''can'' get costumes by collecting cheese normally, it takes ''for freaking ever'' to do so, since costume items cost a lot of cheese, and usually cost far less strawberries by comparison. [[note]]For example, a costume item that costs 1,000 or so cheese will likely cost around 50-100 strawberries, which is around a one dollar in real life US currency.[[/note]] The ''Main/{{Steam}}'' version also allows you to use money from your Steam wallet to buy Strawberries, too.

* AllegedlyFreeGame: {{Downplayed}}. You can't buy anything with real currency that will give you an edge in the game, but you can buy strawberries with real world money, which in turn can be used to buy costumes for your mouse. While you ''can'' get costumes by collecting cheese normally, it takes ''for freaking ever'' to do so, since costume items cost a lot of cheese, and usually cost far less strawberries by comparison. [[note]]For example, a costume item that costs 1,000 or so cheese will likely cost around 50-100 strawberries, which is around a one dollar in real life US currency.[[/note]] The ''Main/{{Steam}}'' also allows you to use money from your Steam wallet to buy Strawberries, too.

* AllegedlyFreeGame: {{Downplayed}}. You can't buy anything with real currency that will give you an edge in the game, but you can buy strawberries with real world money, which in turn can be used to buy costumes for your mouse. While you ''can'' get costumes by collecting cheese normally, it takes ''for freaking ever'' to do so, since costume items cost a lot of cheese, and usually cost far less strawberries by comparison. [[note]]For example, a costume item that costs 1,000 or so cheese will likely cost 50-100 strawberries, which is around a dollar in real life.[[/note]] The ''Main/{{Steam}}'' also allows you to use money from your Steam wallet to buy Strawberries, too.