The Transformice team! Left to right: Loukno, Azrou, Tigrounette, Sydoline, Melibellule A picture of Tigrounette in a French article about Transformice. Sydoline Loukno MOARRRR!!! (Move your mouse to reveal the content) MOARRRR!!! (open) MOARRRR!!! (close) Tigrounette Melibellule Sydoline Most recent meetup
Lolol. K so I translated the article. Spoiler (Move your mouse to the spoiler area to reveal the content) Show Spoiler Hide Spoiler With 200000 daily players in the world, Transformice, the game-where you play as a little mouse-created by Mélanie Christin and Jean-Baptiste Lemarchand is a great success. Tourcoing, the business incubator, holds the success story of these two former employees of Ankama. She is a graphics and concept designer. He is a developer. They met at Ankama where for two years they worked on the Dofus project. "In our spare time, we made a computer game," recounts Mélanie Christin, 25, and Jean-Baptiste Lemarchand, 27, now working with business incubator Tourcoing. Flashback to May 2010: the duo whose sole ambition is "having fun" has no idea what's in store for Transformice when they release it onto the web. The principle? "Each player controls a mouse. The goal is to go get cheese and return it. And more cheese you have, more you can customize your mouse." Translated into 7 languages Posted on a video gaming forum, Transformice was an immediate success. "The unique thing about this game is that it's a multiplayer game in real time, a rare occurrence," explains Jean-Baptiste Lemarchand. "Created with flash technology, the game is playable from any computer, without need for any downloads. It suffices to enter the site name. That's why it works." Created in French, the game has picked up English fans from the beginning. "We translated it and it exploded." 18 months later, Transformice has more than 6 million accounts, including 1.2 million active, 200000 players per day, 350000 fans on Facebook, and a new record of 30000 connected simultaneously last September 25, at 7 PM! It's also been translated into seven languages: English, but also Norwegian, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Turkish and Portuguese. "We have 50% Brazilian players, only 8% French," laughs Jean-Baptiste Lemarchand. Transformice even got the public award during the Flash Gaming Summit in San Francisco, February 2011. Now self-employed, the founding duo left Ankama last may. "We're not entrepreneurs, we needed some business advice and the business incubator really helped us out." L'Atelier 801, their society, has even just recruited a person to reply to and work with the player community. "We receive nearly 600 mails per day. We need to keep our players happy because they are the backbone of this game. It's like a little social network. Mélanie and Jean-Baptiste are concentrating themselves on the daily improvement of a product which hasn't stopped gaining fans. By the number of connections, Transformice is profitable today. "We're paid by ads and we can live off of that." They have other projects planned. Link here http://www.nordeclair.fr/Locales/Tourcoing/2011/10/12/success-souris-pour-transformice.shtml
K-I-S-S-I-N-G! First comes love, then comes... I should probably stop now ._." But still, nice article =3
Jean-Baptiste and Melanie. Well now I know the faces of the two people who have ruined my life. Anyway I'm glad they're getting so much recognition, they deserve it for how awesome this game is.
