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Mélanie Christin (more commonly known online as Melibellule or Meli) is the co-creator of Transformice. She co-founded Atelier 801 with Tigrounette where they shared the co-CEO position. Despite her work, she chose to remain mostly anonymous for the early life of Transformice.

On 12 January 2022, Meli announced in a Paroles de Dev that she was leaving Atelier 801 in the next few months to pursue a new professional project that aligned with her values and addressed climate change.^[1] She is currently working on Kamaeru, an upcoming cozy farming simulator game.

Gallery[]

Outfits[]

Videos[]

Mélanie Christin (Atelier 801) - Transformice- from small Flash game to 60 million players ММО

The Story of Transformice- An Indie Game with 70 Million Players

Transformice Adventures Kickstarter Video

Atelier 801 In Real Life- Meli's Rambles Ep 1

Atelier 801 In Real Life- Meli's Rambles Ep.2

Atelier 801 In Real Life- Meli's Rambles Ep.3-2

Atelier 801 In Real Life- Meli's Rambles Ep.4-2

Atelier 801 In Real Life- Meli's Rambles Ep.5-2

Atelier 801 In Real Life- Meli's Rambles Anniversary Edition!

References[]

[1] Paroles de Dev 2022 - Atelier 801 forum

[2] ttps://discord.com/channels/246815328103825409/284619339641126912/684444308606287881

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-| image       = [[File:Melibellule.png|center|200px]]
+{{Infobox person
-| caption     = Self portrait of Melibellule.<br>Not really a mouse in real life.
+|title1=Melibellule
-| name        = Mélanie "Meli" Christin
+|image1=Melibellule forum avatar.jpg
-| username    = Melibellule
+|username={{Nickname|Melibellule#0095|id=3159}}
-| born        = {{Birth date and age|1986|7|24}}
+|name=Mélanie Christin
-| gender      = Female
+|born={{Birth date and age|1986|7|24}}
-| residence   = Roubaix, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
+|gender=Female
-| nationality = french
+|position=Co-CEO<br />Art Director<br />Marketing Manager<br />2D Artist
-| position    = Lead Designer, co-CEO
+|joined=1 May 2010
+|left=2022
+|games=''[[Transformice]]''<br />''[[Bouboum]]''<br />''[[Fortoresse]]''<br />''[[Nekodancer]]''<br />''[[Run for Cheese]]''<br />''[[Dead Maze]]''<br />''[[Transformice Adventures]]''<br />''[[Tomb Rumble]]''
 }}
+'''Mélanie Christin''' (more commonly known online as '''Melibellule''' or '''Meli''') is the co-creator of ''[[Transformice]]''. She co-founded [[Atelier 801]] with [[Tigrounette]] where they shared the co-CEO position. Despite her work, she chose to remain mostly anonymous for the early life of ''Transformice''.
+On 12 January 2022, Meli announced in a [[Paroles de Dev]] that she was leaving [[Atelier 801]] in the next few months to pursue a new professional project that aligned with her values and addressed climate change.<ref>[https://atelier801.com/topic?f=5&t=932645 Paroles de Dev 2022 - Atelier 801 forum]</ref> She is currently working on [https://www.kamaeru.com/ ''Kamaeru''], an upcoming cozy farming simulator game.
-'''Mélanie Christin''', more commonly known online as '''Melibellule''' or '''Meli''', is the co-creator and lead designer of [[Transformice]]. She co-founded [[Atelier 801]] with [[Tigrounette]] where they share the co-CEO position. Despite her work, she chose to remain mostly anonymous for the early life of Transformice.
-== Transformice Art ==
-Melibellule has created all the artwork for the game, including (but not limited to) mouse and shaman, all the [[shop]] items, mouse animations, [[Shaman Items|shaman items]], and artwork on the intro screen and webpage. All her works are done in vector, due to working in Flash. She draws the art with a Wacom Intuos 4M, or Wacom Bamboo 1, depending on her location.
-She also is co-game designer of the game, and designs the rules along with [[Tigrounette]].
-== Trivia ==
-* She has a cat and loves goat cheese.
-* She seems to reply to English-speaking individuals when an e-mail is sent to the game's e-mail address.  The Name section of the e-mail's header reads "Souris Grise", or "Gray Mouse".
-* The name "Melibellule" comes from the nickname of Mélanie (Meli), and the word dragonfly in french (Libellule)
-* Melibellule's title, Fromadmin, is a portmanteau of the French word for cheese, 'Fromage', and admin.
-* Melibellule dislikes being shaman, and often says some form of "Oh God" before her turn.
-* Melibellule has the ability to draw shapes in the game.
-* She lives in Roubaix, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, in France, near the Belgian border.
-* She previously worked for Ankama on a project called [http://www.ankama-games.com/en/the-games/DOFUS/ DOFUS]
-* Likes to fix her car.
-* Has a small keep-the-boxes mania which annoys [[Tigrounette]].
-* She has a Transformer tablet on Android and an iPhone. She likes her iPhone better to be honest, because she finds it more simple for her ''little'' head and doesn’t like fiddling with parameters, but her Android tablet is sturdy and lasts like forever, super useful when she needs to read hundreds of PDF pages. <ref>http://meli-blog.tumblr.com/post/103889167680/are-you-an-android-or-ios-person</ref>
-*She graduated in sciences in high school, then went to a medical university in order to become a physiotherapist. It’s only during this first year of university that she realized it wasn’t what she really wanted to do, and since she was fiddling for a couple years with digital art, she tried a reconversion and went to an art school for two years.<br>
-In this art school, they only worked with traditional mediums, and she self-taught herself everything about digital.<br>
-She didn’t know she’d pursue an artistic career until she was 19, and she chose so because she started toying with photoshop at age 17 or something <ref>http://meli-blog.tumblr.com/post/104573120830/at-school-did-you-know-that-you-were-always-going</ref>
-*Her dad’s house is south of France <ref>http://meli-blog.tumblr.com/post/98660905270/privyet-meli-i-know-youre-busy-but-will-you</ref>
-*She never worked in ordinary software development before she find videogame dev is cooler but it’s just her taste <ref>http://meli-blog.tumblr.com/post/105471832445/ordinary-software-development-vs-game</ref>
-*[[Tigrounette]] understands written English very well, and spoken English a bit less, but it gets hard for him when it comes to speaking/writing it himself, so either he asks Melibellule to translate his whole posts so it’s accurate, or he asks her for a word of vocabulary or two when the sentence is simple. <ref>http://meli-blog.tumblr.com/post/105164074705/does-tig-understand-english-or-do-you-translate</ref>
-*She knows TotalBiscuit and his "WTF is" Youtube series, but she’s not willing to beg for his attention to make a video about Transformice, especially after his stance on the whole Gamergate thing, she says. If he finds out about the game by himself and covers it, she’ll be glad for the visibility boost, but she’s not going to be like the hundreds crying for him to notice them everyday. It’s not healthy in her opinion. <ref>http://meli-blog.tumblr.com/post/105006374205/hey-do-you-know-totalbiscuit-and-his-wtf-is</ref>
-*She reads so much english, she think she’s getting close from being completely fluent, and sometimes she even thinks in English and can’t type something in particular in French. But it’s not really weird or uncomfortable for her. <ref>http://meli-blog.tumblr.com/post/104868236680/is-it-weird-to-speak-french-all-day-and-then-write</ref>
-[[File:Tumblr_ngaddo8FxL1rk6085o1_1280.jpg|right|200px]]
-*Panic attacks are a ''fucking'' curse to her, she has been getting them since she was 16. It's still happening for her sometimes for no ''fucking'' reason. They usually come more often when depression starts to ''kickin'' her. Then nothing. She feels nothing. Nothing makes her happy any more, nothing appeals to her. She acts like a ''zombie'', and she's good at pretending. But inside she's empty. It's usually the time if she had a button to end everything, she wouldn't mind pressing it that much. Then it's the time she realizes she needs help and calls hospital.
-[[File:Tumblr_ndljwhfV8H1rk6085o1_1280.png|200px]]
-*She panics when she has to draw a very detailed spider for Halloween while being highly arachnophobic <ref>http://meli-blog.tumblr.com/post/105299831490/i-have-to-ask-do-you-have-any-art-that-isnt-game</ref>
-[[File:25_essential_expressions_challenge_by_meli-d5o16h7.jpg|100px]][[File:Character_painting_experiment_by_meli-d4bd34a.png|100px]][[File:Lighty_study_loki_by_meli-d5v4mgu.png|100px]]
-*Her art unrelated with anime and any games, unique (one of them is 25 Essential Expressions Challenge).
-*She and [[Tigrounette]] only spent three weeks on their spare time while being fully employed to make the very first version of Transformice, so they didn’t need any funds really<br>
-Tig reused a lot of work he also did on his spare time during the years before, so it’s not exactly three weeks total, but they didn’t need any funds to get started. Oh apart from renting a single server maybe, like for 30$ a month? When the game took off (like a couple days later) they just put a small ad banner next to the game to pay for the increasing server costs,<br>
-Then they stayed employed for a year before resigning to create the studio, so they didn’t leave right away with empty pockets. Came in handy retrospectively, because when they had problems with ad banners they didn’t pay ourselves for six months or so, thankfully enough they were able to take it on the chin because they saved a bit.<br>
-So her advice to aspiring indie developers : don’t go full-in with your savings, always have some spare cash lying somewhere, and set up as many safety nets as you possibly can! You gotta take risks sometimes, but never be irresponsible. <ref>http://meli-blog.tumblr.com/post/104526202055/where-did-you-get-the-money-to-first-start</ref>
-*She thinks EvilDaedalus' 2010 video, "Meet the mouse" is the '''best''' depiction of Transformice that was ever crafted, and she yet to encounter a video half as accurate as this one. She loves it to bits.<br>
-They actually got inspired a lot by it to make the plan of the upcoming Transformice trailer that’s going to be displayed on the Steam page! <red>http://meli-blog.tumblr.com/post/104520861215/do-you-feel-like-evildaedalus-2010-video-meet</ref>
-*When asked "''WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO GET MARRIED MELIII?''", she answered "''When SOMEONE finally makes his demand I guess''" <ref>http://meli-blog.tumblr.com/post/104516845225/when-are-you-going-to-get-married-meliii</ref>
 ==Gallery==
-<tabber>
-Mouse=
-<gallery widths="180px" heights="180px">
-Melibellule.png|Self portrait of Melibellule.
-Meli_avatar.png|Avatar
-</gallery>
-|-|Drawn=
 <gallery>
+Japan Expo Meli comic strip.jpg|[[Comic strip]] in ''[[Transformice Guide 2012]]''
-Meli_drawn.png|Mélanie Christin as depicted by herself.
+Melibellule.png|2010 image
+Melibellule whipping Tigrounette drawing.jpg|Melibellule whipping [[Tigrounette]]
+Transformice avatars by Melibellule.jpg|Staff avatars made by Melibellule in 2012
+Melibellule avatar 1.jpg|Avatar
+Melibellule avatar 2.jpg|Avatar
+Melibellule avatar.png
+Melibellule - Photo professionnelle.jpg
+Map 61 2010 gameplay (2).jpg|Melibellule drawing on a map in 2010
+Twitch atelie5NotLikeThis.png|Atelier 801 [[Twitch]] emote
+Melibellule 2019.jpg|2019 photo
+Melibellule 100k Discord members.png|Melibellule celebrating 100,000 members in the ''Transformice'' Discord server (March 2020)<ref>https://discord.com/channels/246815328103825409/284619339641126912/684444308606287881</ref>
+th Anniversary Melibellule.jpg|Representation of Melibellule in the [[10th Anniversary enigma]]
+Meli leaving Atelier 801.jpg|Melibellule leaving [[Atelier 801]] in 2022
 </gallery>
-|-|Real life=
+===Outfits===
-<gallery widths="180px" heights="180px">
+<gallery type=slideshow position=left>
-vrai_meli.jpg
+File:Melibellule outfit 3.png
-Meli_Bathtub.jpg
+File:Melibellule outfit 2.png
-Meli_Portrait.jpg
+File:Melibellule outfit 1.png
-ZqnrfdI.jpg
-IroFs.jpg
-Moi-3-.jpg
-Melanie.jpg
 </gallery>
+{{clear}}
-</tabber>
-==External Links==
+==Videos==
+<gallery>
-* [http://www.melibellule.com/ Personal website]
+Mélanie Christin (Atelier 801) - Transformice- from small Flash game to 60 million players ММО
-* [http://www.livestream.com/melibellule Livestream]
+The Story of Transformice- An Indie Game with 70 Million Players
-* [https://twitter.com/Melibellule Twitter]
+Transformice Adventures Kickstarter Video
-* [http://meli.deviantart.com/ deviantArt]
+Atelier 801 In Real Life- Meli's Rambles Ep 1
-* [http://cheese.formice.com/mouse/Melibellule.3159 CFM Profile]
+Atelier 801 In Real Life- Meli's Rambles Ep.2
+Atelier 801 In Real Life- Meli's Rambles Ep.3-2
+Atelier 801 In Real Life- Meli's Rambles Ep.4-2
+Atelier 801 In Real Life- Meli's Rambles Ep.5-2
+Atelier 801 In Real Life- Meli's Rambles Anniversary Edition!
+</gallery>
 ==References==
+{{reflist}}
-<references/>
+{{Staff}}
+[[es:Melibellule]]
+[[fr:Melibellule]]
+[[hu:Melibellule]]
+[[pt:Melibellule]]
+[[Category:Staff members]]

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