History VideoGame / Transformice

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

* ViewersAreMorons: Dear anvil god your faith in humanity will take a major blow after playing this game for half an hour. It's not just "oh, that trap was kind of tricky, but you'll do better next time", it's "this is an obvious death trap, and those real players ran into it headlong and just lost."w

* JustForFun/XMeetsY: Observing the usual course of a game, one would surmise that this is a multiplayer version of ''VideoGame/{{Lemmings}}''.

** You can buy [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Marge Simpson's]] hair, [[Franchise/DragonBall Super Saiyan 2]] hair, [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario's]] cap, ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'s helmet, ViewtifulJoe's helmet and VideoGame/MegaMan's helmet in the shop, as well as an eggshell hat reminiscent of [[VideoGame/YoshisIsland Yoshi's]]. [[VideoGame/{{Touhou}} Yuuka's PC-98 Nightcap]] is also available.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://cheese.formice.com/wiki/Main_Page Didn't even take that long.]]

* FloatingPlatforms: Sometimes, they're often given some form of justification of being tied to balloons or part of the background. Other times, especially with fan created maps, TheyJustDidntCare to privde a justification.

** Also, one of the {{Cosmetic Award}}s you can buy with your cheese is a pair of TriangleShades, which resemble either [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2 the Mouser's]] or [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Kamina's]].

* XMeetsY: Observing the usual course of a game, one would surmise that this is a multiplayer version of ''VideoGame/{{Lemmings}}''.

* WikiRule: [[http://cheese.formice.com/wiki/Main_Page Didn't even take that long.]]

* ViewersAreMorons: Dear anvil god your faith in humanity will take a major blow after playing this game for half an hour. It's not just "oh, that trap was kind of tricky, but you'll do better next time", it's "this is an obvious death trap, and those real players ran into it headlong and just lost."

** You can buy [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Marge Simpson's]] hair, [[Franchise/DragonBall Super Saiyan 2]] hair, {{Mario}}'s cap, ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'s helmet, ViewtifulJoe's helmet and VideoGame/MegaMan's helmet in the shop, as well as an eggshell hat reminiscent of [[VideoGame/YoshisIsland Yoshi's]]. [[VideoGame/{{Touhou}} Yuuka's PC-98 Nightcap]] is also available.

** You can buy [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Marge Simpson's]] hair, [[DragonBall Super Saiyan 2]] hair, {{Mario}}'s cap, ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'s helmet, ViewtifulJoe's helmet and VideoGame/MegaMan's helmet in the shop, as well as an eggshell hat reminiscent of [[VideoGame/YoshisIsland Yoshi's]]. [[VideoGame/{{Touhou}} Yuuka's PC-98 Nightcap]] is also available.

* RunningGag: There are several maps that look to be a [[SchmuckTrap straight run to the cheese with no visible obstacles]].

* RunningGag: There are several maps that look to be a [[ObviousTrap straight run to the cheese with no visible obstacles]].

* RandomlyDrops: The Christmas presents in the 2011 Christmas event have a 10% chance of giving you an item, 40% chance of giving you a piece of cheese, and 50% chance of giving you nothing whatsoever.

* ObviousTrap: It doesn't matter ''how'' obvious, ''someone'' will run straight into it.

* NonindicativeName:

* 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 use to unlock further shaman abilities. 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...

* ItAmusedMe: It might as well be named ''Trolling: The Game''. [[note]]Though later updates have really started to crack down on the {{GIFT}} in action, which has been met with [[BrokenBase about as well as you'd expect]] considering {{Troll}}s were the game's main players during alpha and early beta. {{Griefing}} is still possible and allowed, but nowhere ''near'' as prevalent as it was in earlier versions of the game.[[/note]]

* IncrediblyLamePun: Some of the titles. "The Cheesen One," anyone?

* GravityScrew: There's a level in which the gravity switches after a few seconds. Naturally, it consists of a flat floor, has no roof or platforms of any kind, and [[EverythingIsTryingToKillYou the sky kills you]] if a shaman doesn't build a plank with a red anchor above everyone's head fast enough.

* FacePalm: One of the emoticons is this.

* CartoonCheese: You can't have cartoon mice without it! The WebAnimation series takes it to it's logical extreme but having a few pieces of cheese being literal yellow bricks with holes in them.

* BottomlessPit: Wouldn't be a platforming game without them. Naturally, it's the most common hazard, and the one that requires the Shaman's help with the most. [[LuckBasedMission Better pray you have a Shaman who knows what s/he's doing.]]

* BlackoutBasement: [[strike:Nightmare]] "Nighttime Mode" maps. You can only see a brief lit circle around your mouse, with everything else being completely blacked out. This makes accidentally running into bottomless pits unless you know the map frustratingly common.

** The [[FanNickname Anvil God]], a shaman troll tactic of chaining anvils together to [[WreakingHavoc wreak havoc on the game's physics engine]], was accepted into official canon as the EvilCounterpart to Elisah, the game's deity figure.

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

** Through dark shaman troll magic and abuse of Transformice physics, shamans are able to create a flying aberration formed of many anvils connected to each other with rotating anchors stacked on top of each other; the aforementioned Anvil God. In one of the now removed maps, you must [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu face a resident Anvil God]] to get the cheese. However, thanks to the Anvil God also having the side effect of [[GameBreakingBug crashing the game for some]], the Transformice mods have long since started cracking down on anyone who attempts to summon the Anvil God, as well as removing any maps that feature it, much to the anger of classic Transformice players.

** "[[{{Seinfeld}} No cheese for you!]]"