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Rating: 4.6/5 (476 votes)
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TrickyMitozaSeeds can do a lot of things in casual gaming land. They can turn the entire world into cubes. They can be cross-bred into hyper-flowers. They can listen to your thoughts of how they should grow. They can go on island adventures. And, with a little care, they can even take on the undead. Yep, when you plant a seed, it seems that anything is possible. Never has that idea been better expressed than in Mitoza, a surreal point-and-click webtoy by Baboon (Gal Mamalya), whom also was behind the Bamba Snack Quests. Once you start making choices for your little embryonic pod, there's no telling what the result will be.

At each stage of Mitoza, you are presented with two choices for your seed. You choose between them by clicking with the mouse. Each choice will lead to lead to your seed growing into a new creation, which leads to another choice. This repeats until the process is complete, and cyclically begins with a new seed. For instance, you start with a choice between a bird and a pot: choosing the pot causes the seed to sprout, and offers you a choice between fertilizer and a watering can. Choosing the watering can causes the sprout to grow into a beautiful flower, and offers a choice between a bowling ball and a box. Choosing the bowling ball crushes it into a mess of petals, and so forth. Believe me... each choice makes sense at the time, but once you start seeing a chorus of flies performing Hamlet in the center of a cardboard castle, you'll being a little confused as to how you got there.

Mitoza is very strange and not too deep, but very fun to play with. The visuals are beautiful in their photo-realism, and is animated smoothly enough to look cool, while jerky enough to look off-kilter. The real draw though is the surreality of the effects your choices have on your little seed. Some results are hilarious, some are gross, some are even a little disturbing, but all are interesting enough that you'll keep clicking through at least a few cycles. My personal favorite probably was the helicopter elephants being launched into space by the rocket-carrot... yeah, it's one of those kinds of games.

Right from the elephant-hamster wheel pre-loader, Mitoza is clearly not something that takes itself seriously. It's goofy and dreamlike and insane. I think you'll like it. Go ahead... seed it for yourself.

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47 Comments

Well...that was bizarre. I liked it though!

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Mitoza has the nicest animations i've seen in a long time. Their timing and smoothness in combination with a superb sounddesign that fits perfectly makes this one of the best flash-art-piece i've seen so far.

Bravo

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It's the best nightmare i had in a long time.

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We are clearly dealing with some wonderfully disturbed minds here. Looking forward to seeing more from baboon!

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Vogonviking February 16, 2011 9:58 AM

This is so addictive! Great "game"!

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This is very similar to one of eyezmaze's grow games. perhaps this drew inspiration?

However, I like the more surreal feel. grainy film-filter does wonders for a game

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My favorite was:

the spider "cocoon" that was nearly carried away by broccoli until it was erased in the middle. I laughed out loud when I clicked the cake icon and it turned into a portal...

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I'm fairly confident this is probably what it's like to be trapped deep within Terry Gilliam's brainal pocket space. Strange yet cosy.

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HA! Found a refrence to Shift!

Pot, bottle, spider, brocolli, ereaser, birthday cake

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Rukia, that's a reference to Portal, not Shift.

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Wierdest.

Webtoy.

Ever.

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Aw, man...the game hasn't even LOADED yet and I'm in love. I want a tiny little elephant running on a hamster wheel!

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Whoa...the Devil is an eggplant? Now it all makes sense.

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i want whatever they smoked...
such a WTF toy. a brilliant fav!

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As Nester64 pointed out there a game very close to this one on the Grow series.

https://jayisgames.com/archives/2006/12/grow_v1.php

I highly recommend trying it out with the other Grow games if you not aware of the series. jayisgames love the Grow series for a reason. :P It is casually fun.

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Has someone found a secret iPhone app (it's weird).
Hint:

You need to click on a TV

How to get to it:

Bird- BigEgg - TV

Anyways this is nice some stuff are plain weird but I'll give it a highscore.

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It was worth all of the other (sometimes gross) weirdness for the

flies doing Shakespeare

Yay!

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I'm one of those people who will methodically go through every combination to see what happens.
WHEEEE!!!

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Some of these made me burst out laughing.

I made all combinations, and here are some of my favorites:

Pot + Water + Box + Crayon + Heart = adorable!
Pot + Water + Box + Crayon + BrokenHeart = RARRRRR!
Pot + Water + Bowling + Smile + Brain + Mushroom = Mario ftw!
Pot + Milk + Fly + Swat + Ghost = demon summoning and a magnet
Pot + Milk + Fly + Swat + Skull = there is another choice where you "like" or "hate" the Hamlet performance

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Fred M. Sloniker February 16, 2011 3:43 PM

The instructions to find the iPhone app page are wrong, or at least don't work for me. I had to do:

Pot -> Watering can -> Bowling ball -> Rectangular mark

Then click in the middle instead of making a choice.

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Is there a hidden cultural joke of some kind in all of them, or just a few? That would make a kind of cool "walkthrough". Also, my iPod app was in a different location:

Pot>Watering Can>Bowling Ball>TV (which looks nothing like a TV, but is opposite the smiley face).

At that point, I could click on the TV screen and go to the app page.

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The visuals are indeed surreal! I say this guy is up there with Mat and the other giants of browser-based flash games?

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Ooh, I found a reference to a Magritte painting.

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Great game, I liked it better when it was called Grow, years ago.

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Cute, weird fun, but it is no "Feed the Head."

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I had to force myself to stop or else I'd go through each and every combination. It would stop being fun and become a compulsion.

That's not a criticism of the game, just a glimpse into my fragile psyche. The game looks great!

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This is awesome! Had touches of Jan Švankmajer's work in there. Loved the Teddy Bear and rainbow and the flying elephants, too. A webtoy I'll play with a lot.

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I have played through to get EVERY combination. I do believe I have broken my brain. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll go tremble in a corner thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about.........

thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking! It ends now!

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this is wonderful, and i might have been one of those who go through all the options - if not for this wiggle effect, shaking the screen at a high framerate for an old cinematic feel. this made me sea sick, but i can guess i went through something like 70% of the options before throwing up. cool but smelly little clicker.

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it's is one of the best animations I've ever seen. It's the work of an israeli guy.
Awesome work.

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Beautifully and disturbed game.

I liked the hanged rubber duck:

Bird>Small Egg>Upside Down Carrot>Duck>Stake

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I compulsively did go through all the combinations. And then when I read Sloniker's post about

clicking in the middle

I thought "oh no, no, no, do I have to go through all the paths again?"

Answer: "no". At least ... not for the couple that I checked. ...

... nope, not going to check any more.

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Portal reference FTW!

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Ice cream!

bird > big egg > horns > ice cream

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InsanePenguin February 27, 2011 5:39 AM

I think I would have appreciated this toy more if it had had a "back" button, instead of starting from the beginning for each new combination. I want to see them all, but I really don't like going through all the steps every single time. O_o My brain hurts...

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I had half a mind to give this a look when I saw it on Kongregate and oh my god what the hell is that thing shudder shudder shudder shudder

...Good god, that thing in the icon for this game on Kongregate is disturbing. Some kind of...skinned thing with an eye in its middle and a freaking halo.

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I love the goldfish in the toilet ^u^ XD

bird-little egg- up carrot - elephant - left and right arrows - crown

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Well, this game had me paused with my hands trying to keep my sanity in my head quite a few times.

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Anonymous March 27, 2011 10:14 AM

Walkthrough! All the Endings found!

1.

Fly Tomatoes

1. flower pot

2. growth formula

3. fly

4. swatter

5. skull

6. thumbs down

2.

Fly Applause

1. flower pot

2. growth formula

3. fly

4. swatter

5. skull

6. thumbs up

3.

Fly Seance

1. flower pot

2. growth formula

3. fly

4. swatter

5. ghost

4.

Fly Sandwich

1. flower pot

2. growth formula

3. fly

4. poo

5. banana

6. bread

5.

Collapsible Fly

1. flower pot

2. growth formula

3. fly

4. poo

5. banana

6. stones

6.

Fly Waste

1. flower pot

2. growth formula

3. fly

4. poo

5. cherry

7.

Strange Sushi

1. flower pot

2. growth formula

3. spider

4. broccoli

5. pencil tip

8.

Transporter

1. flower pot

2. growth formula

3. spider

4. broccoli

5. pencil eraser

6. cake

9.

Daredevil Duck

1. flower pot

2. growth formula

3. spider

4. broccoli

5. pencil eraser

6. flame

10.

Halloween Delight

1. flower pot

2. growth formula

3. spider

4. ice cream

5. fangs

11.

Dentist

1. flower pot

2. growth formula

3. spider

4. ice cream

5. tooth

12.

Mario!

1. flower pot

2. water

3. bowling ball

4. smile

5. brain

6. mushroom

13.

Fish Service

1. flower pot

2. water

3. bowling ball

4. smile

5. brain

6. bell

14.

Hooked

1. flower pot

2. water

3. bowling ball

4. smile

5. hat

6. apple

15.

Exploding Jack

1. flower pot

2. water

3. bowling ball

4. smile

5. hat

6. pumpkin

16.

Fly Dinner

1. flower pot

2. water

3. bowling ball

4. screen

5. remote

17.

Snack Time

1. flower pot

2. water

3. bowling ball

4. screen

5. popcorn

18.

Bees With Stars

1. flower pot

2. water

3. box

4. crayon

5. bees

6. gear

19.

Bumble Bath

1. flower pot

2. water

3. box

4. crayon

5. bees

6. light

20.

Rainbow Bear

1. flower pot

2. water

3. box

4. crayon

5. bear

6. heart

21.

Laser Bear

1. flower pot

2. water

3. box

4. crayon

5. bear

6. broken heart

22.

Grow a Pet Elephant

1. flower pot

2. water

3. box

4. scissors

5. rain

23.

Grow a Pet Elephant

1. flower pot

2. water

3. box

4. scissors

5. wind

24.

Russian Dolls

1. bird

2. big egg

3. halo

4. open egg

25.

Eye On The Prize

1. bird

2. big egg

3. halo

4. elephant foot

26.

Stormy Weather

1. bird

2. big egg

3. horns

4. hole

5. cloud

6. umbrella

27.

Franken-Egg

1. bird

2. big egg

3. horns

4. hole

5. cloud

6. lightning

28.

U.F.O. (Udders Flying Overhead)

1. bird

2. big egg

3. horns

4. hole

5. milk

6. cow

29.

Ashes To Ashes

1. bird

2. big egg

3. horns

4. hole

5. milk

6. pig

30.

Franchise

1. bird

2. big egg

3. horns

4. ice cream

31.

Elephant Rocket

1. bird

2. little egg

3. carrot point up

4. elephant

5. up

32.

Abdicating The Throne

1. bird

2. little egg

3. carrot point up

4. elephant

5. left and right

6. crown

33.

Choose One

1. bird

2. little egg

3. carrot point up

4. elephant

5. left and right

6. three cups

34.

Psycho

1. bird

2. little egg

3. carrot point up

4. duck

5. knife

35.

Air Lift

1. bird

2. little egg

3. carrot point up

4. duck

5. boat

36.

Tongue Bridge

1. bird

2. little egg

3. carrot point down

4. nail

37.

Disappearing Act

1. bird

2. little egg

3. carrot point down

4. flame

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...I don't know what just happened. Felt like a live-animation version of Grow. Only more... disturbing. But not in a bad way.

Also very phallic.

(Is it just me? Begging your pardon...)

Still can't shake the images from my head. I feel enlightened. I don't know what to do with this knowledge.

The interactions are very smooth and the sound effects were nice. Very stimulating, not just for the audio-visual but also the weird kicks. My cat enjoyed the bird and buzzing insects very much.

I think I'm close to discovering the meaning of life... or a new innovative way to cook bacon.

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My account is disabled April 29, 2011 10:46 PM

@ Aureza: That's pretty much how I feel too. Just... dazed by the whole sordid thing. I think I'll send a link to everyone I know with no explanation at all.

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i have a combination

plant,watering can,box,scissors,water

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This series of animation reminds me very much of the early Monty Python and the Flying Circus sequences. They were highly creative, and extremely entertaining (after a few beers!) Well done designers, you hit the proverbial nail on the head! More please??

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This series of animation reminds me very much of the early Monty Python and the Flying Circus sequences. They were highly creative, and extremely entertaining (after a few beers!) Well done designers, you hit the proverbial nail on the head! More please??

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jennykim610 December 30, 2013 9:10 AM

I find it sarcastic that

the bottle with the flower on it

Makes

giant ugly plant-eating thing

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The creepiest of all is this:

LRLLLR

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I loved this the first time around--thanks for the reminder. What is really funny to me is that the same thing that "got me" today--eggplant devil--is the thing I commented on when this first came out! Ha! That just cracked me up.

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