About us
Tigrounette
Occupation
Co-CEO & Chief Technical Officer
Speciality
Ketchup noodles, AS3, making scary jokes (i.e : “I broke everything”)
Tigrounette (or Tig for short) was born on February the 22nd of 1984, and is the guru of all Transformice’s code. He can debug the map system while coding new features for an event, and making troll jokes in the same time. He likes good cuisine, though often too lazy to cook himself.
During his free time, he codes small games for fun, and has more than 40 unfinished games into his hard drive.
He plays tons of videogames, to the dismay of his Steam account and wallet. His favorite games are, in no particular order : Dark Age of Camelot, World of Warcraft, League of Legends, Portal, Left 4 Dead.
His sister Ley was an admin during the early days of Transformice’s life, helping with hirings the first moderators. She since left, in order to take care of her newborn.
Melibellule
Occupation
Co-CEO and Art Director
Speciality
Repairing herself her 22 years old car, Flash CS5, not throwing away old junk (drives Tig crazy at the office)
Melibellule (or Meli for short) was born on July the 24th of 1986, and is the designer of almost everything that isn’t text. She learns fast, and has a particular interest into debug, optimization and coding, which made her work a lot with Tig and become the favorite graphic designer among the developpers at her previous work.
She loves to read a lot, play videogames, and take hot baths. Her favorite authors are Anne Mc Caffrey, Robin Hobb, Orson Scott Card, Dan Simmons, George R.R. Martin, Patrick Rothfuss. Her favorite videogames are Portal, Left 4 Dead, Pokémon, Super Smash Bros Melee, Animal Crossing, Sonic Generations, Anno 2070, Dungeon Defenders, Guild Wars 2, Lethis Path of Progress and Rocket League.
Azrou
Occupation
Lead Programmer
Speciality
Throwing plushies back, being quiet, making nice figures with his metallic bucky balls
Azrou was born on June the 24th of 1984, and is responsible of a lot of the code located on our servers. He makes the whispers and connexions possible! He also is a Linux and Ghibli fanboy, and always wears sandals, even in winter.
Larirette
Occupation
Chief Financial Officer
Speciality
Swimming in numbers
Larirette was born on January the 3rd of 1967, making her the caring mother of everyone at Atelier 801. She seems to master black magic when handling very intricate numbers on financial reports, but also takes care of every little task that us geeks tend to forget about (like, insurances, or… taxes)
Nonetheless, she’s a real geek at heart herself, and enjoys a lot being around silly nerds like us.
Pikashu
Occupation
AS3/JAVA developer
Speciality
Decryption of Tig’s code
Pikashu was born on January the 12th of 1990, and he is dedicated to Transformice! He was a mod for most of Transformice’s life, and recently was hired among us to fix all the bugs and code the new features \o/
He’s shy but fearless in front of Tig’s code, making him a real development ninja!
Stardev7
Occupation
JAVA developer
Speciality
Maths
Stardev was born on March the 18th of 1993, and replaced Narayan for the development of our intern tools and countless other things. He’s incredibly brilliant and a perfectionist, juggling with maths and dark code, which makes him an invaluable addition to our small team.
Streaxx
Occupation
International Community Manager
Speciality
Russian
Streaxx was born on July the 23rd of 1993, and replaced Zou for the community management of international communities. She speaks French, English and Russian fluently! She likes going to the gym with fellow Atelier 801 colleagues and buy colorful clothes on the internet for cheap.
Former Admins
Adrazaelle
Occupation
Level Designer & Integrator
Speciality
Being crazy too
Adrazaelle (Adra for short) was born on July the 11th of 1992, and replaced Zou for the community management of international communities. She’s super energetic, and already hid some chocolate eggs around the office for Easter!
She later joined the Dead Maze team to work on the Level Design.
Galaktine
Occupation
Brazilian & Spanish Community Manager
Speciality
Being always super happy
Galaktine was born on August the 29th of 1980, and takes care of the huge Brazilian Community. Like her fellow Community Managers, she has to manage moderators, answer emails, and keep an eye on the forums to bring us the problems the brazilian players might encounter. She’s overall a very joyful person, and interacts a lot with her community.
Sydoline
Occupation
English & French Community Manager
Speciality
Staying zen in all circumstances, being shy, cookies
Sydoline (or Sydo for short) was born on June the 29th of 1990, and took care of everything community-related. From organizing events to managing the moderation team, she worked a lot to make Transformice a better and safer place to be at.
Among weird things, she doesn’t like chocolate, but likes to bake cookies. She’s an overall adorable, very shy person, and soothes anyone working around her with her omnious zenitude. We are very grateful for all she did at Atelier 801.
Loukno
Occupation
Marketing Manager
Speciality
Phoning master, understanding law talking, soup-like mashed potatoes
Loukno (no short name this time) was born on August the 6th of 1989, and took care of everything marketing-related, like ads sales, IRL events, or answering the phone. She was contaminated by Sydoline’s tendency for sweets, and they used to steal regularly from each other’s desks for sugar treats.
Zou
Occupation
International Community Manager
Speciality
Being crazy
Zou (from her second name Arzu) was born on April the 12th of 1989, and replaced Sydoline for the community management of international communities. She speaks three languages fluently (French, English and Turkish), is a vegetarian, and often changes her hair color, based on her mood. She’s very joyful and daring, but somehow manages to focus all her energy into knitting when she wants to.
Mickaelsan
Occupation
System and Network Administrator
Speciality
Mac lover
Mickaelsan was born on December the 10th of 1981, and was taking care of everything concerning our servers. Updating them, cleaning them, monitoring them, plugging some cables in their… hum.
He’s also an Apple evangelist and it leaded to many heated debates in the office.
Maharadjah
Occupation
2D Artist
Speciality
Dinosaurs lover
Maharadjah was born on May the 21th of 1991, and was in charge of many graphic assets in all the games. She draws a lot of dragons and dinosaurs, making Tig nag her everytime she didn’t.
Narayan
Occupation
Tools Developer
Speciality
Being handsome
Narayan was born on June the 5th of 1984, and is an awesome multi-tasking dev. His skills range goes from developing useful tools for us to use locally, to coding a whole forums solution from scratch. He also has the hidden ability to look quite handsome on every single picture taken of him.
He also likes turtles.
Mysterious graphist
Occupation
2D & Concept Artist
Speciality
Ninja
Not much is known about this mysterious graphic designer. The most shy of us all, he’s in charge of many designs of Fortoresse and Dead Maze.
Kura
Occupation
Spanish Community Manager
Speciality
Forgetting everything, eating weird stuff, slowpoke
Kura was born on March the 29th of 1983, and took care of the spanish-speaking Community. He was in charge of hiring new moderators, talking with players, and is a pretty good artist, among being an gigantic troll sometimes. Having Tig and Kura trolling each other in the office could be very dangerous.
Vanlu
Occupation
Turkish Community Manager
Speciality
Being shy, not eating much
Vanlu was born on October the 10th of 1983, and took care of the Turkish Community. He had to manage the forums, hire new mods, answer emails, and overall was a real help for us to understand our Turkish community.
About Atelier 801
Atelier 801 is a company founded in October 2011 by Tigrounette (Jean-Baptiste Le Marchand) and Melibellule (Mélanie Christin).
Its purpose is to rally players from all over the world around cute and fun free online games.
Its first game ever created was Transformice, where mice ally to gather as much cheese as possible.
In the near future, Atelier 801 will develop more multiplayer games.
More info : http://societe.atelier801.com