by Ana Vasile, published on 22.02.2011

Conceived and produced by Ankama, a French digital creative group already familiar with transmedia projects notably for Dofus and Wakfu, MaxiMini spreads through four chapters and four different media.

MaxiMini’s story is directly inspired from the Ankama’s comics’ universe, themselves issued from the Dofus MMORPG.

The two main characters are Remingtonand Maskemane, two opponent brothers. Remington’s character, designed by Adriàn, makes his first appearance on the 15^th December 2010, followed by Maskemane on the 15^th February 2011, a Zhifeng Xu aka XZF creation. Both are the main character in a comic distributed bimonthly for 3.50 €.

In MaxiMini these two characters fight together through different media: a comic published in the French DofusMag magazine, an online game and a cartoon soon to be aired on France 3. This little transmedia story will find its conclusions at the Ankama Convention #6, at Lille on the 5^th and 6^th March.

The adventure of our two heroes starts in a comic issued in the 20^th DofusMag. The Roublards, an imaginary nation living in the Dofus universe, is robbed of its five trophies (some magical weapons). That’s when Maskemane and Remington start a dangerous journey hoping to get back the weapons and find the guilty party.

The story unravels itself on the internet through an interactive comic and an online game. Saturday, the 26^th February, after the first episode of the second season of Wakfu is being aired, the MaxiMini story will continue with an eight minute cartoon.

To avoid losing the audience that missed out the first chapter, the producers created on the MaxiMini website a chaptered summary, useful for the cybernauts joining the adventure later on! The team in-charge with this project’s creation and production explains here their creation process and their inspiration sources.