{"id":447,"date":"2010-06-30T10:08:53","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T17:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/islemaster.wordpress.com\/?p=447"},"modified":"2014-02-17T16:43:34","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T00:43:34","slug":"transformice-and-the-mmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/transformice-and-the-mmo\/","title":{"rendered":"Transformice and the mMO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I confess, I&#8217;ve been caught up in the phenomenon of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transformice.com\/en\">Transformice<\/a>.  Its perfect chaos of cooperation and competition is thoroughly addicting.<\/p>\n<p>This game fits into a niche that I find I really enjoy: The Moderately Multiplayer Online Game (I&#8217;m calling it an mMO).  It&#8217;s bigger than a multiplayer game or board game with two to six players, and it&#8217;s smaller than a massively multiplayer game with thousands.  Instead, you&#8217;re dropped into a room with about 25 people, and it creates a funny dynamic where you have lots of repeat encounters with the same players, but there&#8217;s also way too many people to keep track of and you&#8217;re thrown into new and unexpected situations all the time.  In the past I&#8217;ve primarily seen this in shooters like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.battlefieldheroes.com\/en\/\">Battlefield<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/teamfortress.com\/\">Team Fortress 2<\/a>, but I think it&#8217;s fantastic when it shows up elsewhere, like racing in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trackmanianations.com\/indexUk.php\">Trackmania Nations<\/a>.  I&#8217;ll officially put it on my list to design a game for 15-50 people someday.<\/p>\n<p>Try it out!  Tips for new players:  Your best resource is the quickly-improving <a href=\"http:\/\/transformicewiki.com\/index.php?title=Main_Page\">Transformice Wiki<\/a>.  Learn your controls, and before you take a shot at being Shaman you should use <tt>\/room &lt;roomname&gt;<\/tt> to go practice by yourself.  Knowing a bit about anchors, ramps, bridges and elevators will prevent a lot of player frustration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I confess, I&#8217;ve been caught up in the phenomenon of Transformice. Its perfect chaos of cooperation and competition is thoroughly addicting. This game fits into a niche that I find I really enjoy: The Moderately Multiplayer Online Game (I&#8217;m calling it an mMO). It&#8217;s bigger than a multiplayer game or board game with two to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[407,402,397,13],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","tag-atelier-801","tag-played-in-2010","tag-released-in-2010","tag-videogame"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1151,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/1151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}