Founded 2010 · Updated March 2026
Cheese For Mice is the original Transformice community hub. We've been running leaderboards, stat trackers, forums, and community tools since Transformice was still a browser game in 2010. At our peak we were pulling over 1,000 daily visitors and had 1,900+ registered forum members. We were called "the Transformice Community Headquarters" during the 2012-2016 era — and honestly, we still think of ourselves that way.
Sourdough #0000 started CFM in 2010, the same year Transformice launched. The idea was simple: Transformice didn't have a good way to track your stats outside the game. So Sourdough built one. First it was just player lookups — type in a name, see their cheese count, firsts, shaman saves. Then rankings came. Then tribe stats. Then a map database. Then forums. Before long, CFM was the place competitive TFM players went to check how they stacked up.
The site ran on a handmade PHP backend that pulled live data from the game servers. Everything was scraped, parsed, and displayed in near real-time. It wasn't pretty, but it worked — and it worked when nothing else did.
One of CFM's most popular features came from Baffler, who built the original Mouse Dress Room as a Flash application. The concept was brilliant — try on furs, hats, and accessories without spending cheese. Players could design their perfect outfit and share it. The tool became so popular that Atelier 801 eventually added their own in-game version using the /dressing command.
When Adobe killed Flash in 2021, Fewfre rebuilt the dressroom from scratch in HTML5. The new version is fully open source on GitHub. The Transformice Wiki uses Fewfre's tool to grab item images for their articles. Fewfre also built the Shaman Items Customizer and a Map Decorations viewer — all available at projects.fewfre.com.
Global rankings — cheese, firsts, shaman, bootcamp, racing, survivor, tribes
Individual stats, progression tracking, player search
Mouse outfit customizer — furs, accessories, colors
Map database, game guides, title list, event coverage
CFM's code lives on GitHub under the cheeseformice org. There are six repositories: the Python backend, website source, transformice.js (NodeJS client with full TypeScript support), dressroom assets, and maintenance scripts. GitHub has verified that our org controls the cheese.formice.com domain.
CFM is free to use and always will be. Running leaderboard infrastructure for a game with 100M+ accounts costs real money though. Our partnership with Kingbet89 and other community partners is what keeps this going. If you're interested in supporting CFM or partnering with us, check our partners page.