🥳 Mitoza recently turned 1! 🧁

We’re so glad to be involved in resurrecting and bringing you all Gal’s awesome toy! 🌱 And a big thank you to all of you for your support for the past year! 🙏

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1516240/Mitoza/

We’re very proud and excited to announce that Mitoza is now officially out! Not to mention it’s free-to-play! 🥳

Download and explore the amazing adventure created by Gal Mamalya! It all starts with a seed!🌱
http://store.steampowered.com/app/1516240/Mitoza

Big thanks to Gal Mamalya for partnering up with us and for letting us remake and publish his amazing piece of art onto new platforms. It might be a great start to something new. Secondly, we want to thank Jeroen Wimmers for the amazing effort on the programming side and, last but not least, a huge thanks to the awesome Bob Rafferty for putting together this awesome trailer, he is truly a man of many talents! 🙏

Help the Mitoza seed sprout and flourish by leaving a review! 🧸
Let us know what you think in the comments and reviews 🌟, and some of you might win a special postcard! 💌

Thank you all for your awesome support! 🖤

Much love,
Second Maze

Hello everyone!

We, over at Second Maze, have had an amazing time working with the fascinating Gal Mamalya to revive the incredible experience that is his adventure Mitoza! We're all very excited about the upcoming re-release on March 5th, and we thought you'd like some behind the scenes from the man responsible for it all! So without any further ado, make yourself comfortable and enjoy us picking Gal's brain about Mitoza:

Where does the name Mitoza originate from?
“Mitoza” is mitosis in Hebrew. I was looking for a name that would express a situation where one element splits into two, and each part continues on its journey just to split again. It also worked out with the concept of the life cycle.

The name that disqualified at the last minute was Ouroboros, I liked Mitoza better because it sounds Japanese (^^)

What is Mitoza about?

It's not a game actually. For a game to take place, two conditions need to exist - a goal and an obstacle, and both are missing here. Mitoza is a toy, an interactive show that gives the player a false sense of control. The best way to enjoy it is to play as it was created - Do not think, choose the first thing that comes to mind, and do not regret it.

Did you create Mitoza with a concept in mind or by following a specific storyboard?

The game never had a story-board. It was created in real-time and invented on the spot.
At each stage, I opened my mind and chose the farthest thing the situation had thrown me within my personal life.
For example, my favourite food is “Sabich”, based on eggplant and eggs, which is why the eggplant is visiting the egg. Why is it planting it in the ground? That is an egg-plant. that simple.
The carnivorous plant is Rex, the pet plant I grew as a kid. The rabbit is Navnav, a rabbit I adopted after she broke a leg (hence the ball), and so on. I still do not know how the elephant got in there, and it wasn’t a smart idea to give him food because he stayed.

What inspired you to create Mitoza?

I love taking ordinary objects and give them meaningless life-routines or goofy behaviours. Always been fascinated by other artists who did the same and create their own personal twisted world, like cyriak, Monty Python and Jan Svankmajer.
And of course, some odd tv shows from my childhood like Ren and Stimpy or Happy Tree Friends.

Is there a deeper meaning behind Mitoza?
Sorry if this is disappointing, but there is no narrative or a hidden message. It's an intimate improvisation.

Favourite games from 80/90?

As a kid, I loved point-and-click games like Goblins, Neverhood or Simon the Sorcerer. Also been a strategy geek, and spent my school night on Heroes of Might and Magic & Warcraft.
But my all-time favourite game is Tetris.

What have you been up to in the years following the initial Mitoza release?

10 years ago I created games for brands like Coca-Cola, Nestle, Mazda, Unilever Etc. In many cases, I did everything - art, animation, code and sound design. It was satisfying but really exhausting. Mitoza was a personal project, and sadly the last one. Since then I moved into UI design and now working as an art director at an advertising agency.

Over the years I fell in love with Japan, I’m learning the language and food culture, writing a food blog, fermenting miso, making ceramic utensils, sharing everything on my personal blog - @pititmblog.

My life is overloaded with creation but I definitely miss the thrill of game-making. right after I finished Mitoza I came up with an idea for a new game, atypical and ambitious. The vibe around the awakening of Mitoza encouraged me to ponder that after a long break, maybe it's getting the right time to bring life for another fresh idea.

Mitoza is coming to Steam on March 5th! Wishlist now:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1516240/Mitoza/

Thank you all for your time! And a special thank you to our community who contributed to our Q&A with questions of their own, and of course, to Gal himself for "sitting down" with us and sharing his journey in developing Mitoza!

We are beyond excited to officially announce that we're re-releasing Mitoza on Steam!

Amongst all the awesome early point-and-click adventure games of the past, there was this special web game called Mitoza: a surreal game of choices with countless beautiful animations that would surprise you with every decision you made.

Mitoza initially released 10 years ago on Gal Mamalya’s own website and became a massive hit on Kongregate and other Flash games websites. The game was a big inspiration for us long before we started Rusty Lake, so we are proud to keep this beautiful project alive!

The game is coming out on Steam on March 5th (for free)!

Wishlist now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1516240/Mitoza/