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Logo shown in the trailer

Grand Dad Mania is a cancelled SiIvaGunner game that was originally a pastiche of Sonic Mania that was displayed as a high quality rip in "Trailer Theme (In-Game Mix) - Sonic Mania".

Assets^[1] for the game were released the announcement of the game's cancellation^[2].

Overview

The game was planned to be entirely based around the lore and memes of the channel, with playable characters even being based on figments.

The main character would be the titular character Grand Dad who would be playable alongside Smol Nozomi and Loud Nigra. Each would seemingly have their own abilities as indicated by their sprites.

Builds

The only playable build of the game is one that was specifically built for the trailer. This build only has two levels (Grandiose City and Bedrock), the only has Grand Dad as a playable character. As a prototype build made for a trailer build, the level design is basic and there are a multitude of bugs and glitches.

Within the unreleased assets, a video was shown of an unreleased 3DS build which seems to be more developed, sporting a new logo and a functioning title screen, though only a few seconds of gameplay were shown.

Characters

Grand Dad was the main character of the game. He functions like he did in 7 GRAND DAD, although he has a new "dash" move. He can attack with his club and also charge his club by pressing down and holding the attack button respectively. He is also able to do a small dance by holding down the down button.

Smol Nozomi was a planned character. She could perform an attack with her hair that could be charged. She seemed to be able to glide and run with her hair; Nozomi's sprites show her spinning her twintails as she moves.^[1].

Loud Nigra was also planned to make an appearance. He has a punching attack with the apparent ability to charge it, although charging animation was released in the prototype build. His idle animation shows him taking off the star on his crotch, revealing an empty star-shaped hole that he stares at for a while before putting the star back^[1].

The version shown in "A Manic Announcement" showcases Nozomi and Nigra with new abilities similar to Tails and Knuckles, respectively.

Levels

Grandiose City (labelled as level 2.5 within the asset files) features buildings covered in memes and references. This level has extra background elements used for parallax scrolling.

Bedrock is the starting level in the 3DS build, but the second level in the trailer build. It is styled after Bedrock from The Flintstones. The level contains few enemies, and the enemies that exist all are dinosaur-esque.

Development

The game was originally a joke when first shown with the trailer, but on October 25th 2016, contributor MM102 announced that the game was being developed^[3].

Eventually, due to the lack of focus within the development team, and the large scope of the game, the game was cancelled. This was announced in a now-private video called "the nutshack theme but the first nutshack is replaced with me ending Grand Dad Mania" (a reference to "The nutshack theme but the first nutshack is replaced with me ending the channel") uploaded February 22nd 2017 by MM102^[2]. This video also released the assets of the prototype build that fans were free to use for their own versions of the game^[1].

On August 20th 2017, "A Manic Announcement" teased footage of a more complete Grand Dad Mania, though it was later clarified that the game was still cancelled^[4].

Fan-made revivals

Sonic Mania Mod

A modification for Sonic Mania that included Nozomi Toujou as a playable character was announced by the Twitter account @GDMmod (originally @GrandDadMania) on September 7. Originally called Nozomi Mania^[5], the project eventually expanded its focus to not just Nozomi, but to a full modification of Sonic Mania into Grand Dad Mania. This change was announced on September 15 with the video "Nozomi Mania(?)'s Grand Announcement". The development team included several SiIvaGunner contributors, such as CaptainComedy, CrystalForce, Dead Line, Reach, and toonlink. It has been cancelled as of July 2019^[6].

"Grand Dad Mania: Revived" Remake

On September 24, 2017, Kolyasisan released an early tech demo of a Unity-remake of Grand Dad Mania. Kolyasisan had previously worked on another fanwork called Grand Dad Mania Remastered, but left the team when the development had ground to a halt. The project would later grow into a standalone fan-made game codenamed Grand Dad Mania: Revived. The game appeared at Sonic fan game conference SAGE 2018 with a new demo. Revived was revealed at F3 (a fanmade game version of E3) on July 7th 2018. In April 2019, the Revived team announced that development on the game had halted, and may or may not continue^[7]. As of August 2019, the @GrandDadRevived Twitter account has been suspended for unknown reasons, leaving the remake's future uncertain.

An announcement on the project's YouTube account posted December 1, 2019 revealed that the team was still developing the project, and according to a YouTube Community post, the mod is still in development as of September 2020.

Trivia

The logo used in the 3DS build can be found in the game assets. It has the pink text and almost identical font to the original 7 GRAND DAD, but with the "Mania" (high-quality) ripped straight from the Sonic Mania logo.

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 https://www.dropbox.com/s/awjx6x6zwuj12e2/ASSETS.zip?dl=0
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 "the nutshack theme but the first nutshack is replaced with me ending Grand Dad Mania"
↑ https://twitter.com/MM102_/status/791048827935404032
↑ YouTube comment by sykhro
↑ YumeGipsu. "Sonic Mania: Nozomi Mania Mod Pre-Release Trailer". September 9, 2017.
↑ Tweet by @ceIshader.
↑ "The State of Development" on Grand Dad Mania: Revived's itch.io page

[:0-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 https://www.dropbox.com/s/awjx6x6zwuj12e2/ASSETS.zip?dl=0

[:1-2] 2.0 ^2.1 "the nutshack theme but the first nutshack is replaced with me ending Grand Dad Mania"

[3] ttps://twitter.com/MM102_/status/791048827935404032

[4] YouTube comment by sykhro

[5] YumeGipsu. "Sonic Mania: Nozomi Mania Mod Pre-Release Trailer". September 9, 2017.

[6] Tweet by @ceIshader.

[7] "The State of Development" on Grand Dad Mania: Revived's itch.io page

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 [[File:Old logo.png|thumb|219x219px|Logo shown in the trailer]]
-'''Grand Dad Mania '''is a cancelled [[SiIvaGunner]] game that was originally a pastiche of [[Sonic Mania]] that was displayed as a [[High quality rip]] in [[Trailer Theme (In-Game Mix) - Sonic Mania]].
+'''Grand Dad Mania''' is a cancelled [[SiIvaGunner]] game that was originally a pastiche of ''[[Sonic Mania]]'' that was displayed as a [[Rip|high quality rip]] in "[[Trailer Theme (In-Game Mix) - Sonic Mania]]".
+Assets<ref name=":0" /> for the game were released the announcement of the game's cancellation<ref name=":1" />.
-Assets for the game were released after it was announced to be cancelled. These can be found [https://www.dropbox.com/s/awjx6x6zwuj12e2/ASSETS.zip?dl=0 here], and the cancellation announcement can be found [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA2nC-nVzF8 here].
 == Overview ==
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 The game was planned to be entirely based around the [[lore]] and [[memes]] of the channel, with playable characters even being based on [[figments]].
-The main character would be the titular [[Grand Dad]] who would be playable alongside [[Smol Nozomi]] and [[Loud Nigra]]. Each would seemingly have their own abilities as indicated by their sprites.
+The main character would be the titular character [[Grand Dad]] who would be playable alongside [[Smol Nozomi]] and [[Loud Nigra]]. Each would seemingly have their own abilities as indicated by their sprites.
 === Builds ===
-The only playable build of the game is one that was specifically built for the trailer; it only has two levels ([[Grandiose City]] and [[Bedrock]]),  the only playable character is Grand Dad, and it lacks any music (though it does have sound effects sometimes). As to be expected from a trailer build, the level design is basic and there are a multitude of bugs and glitches.
+The only playable build of the game is one that was specifically built for the trailer. This build only has two levels ([[Grandiose City]] and Bedrock), the only has Grand Dad as a playable character. As a prototype build made for a trailer build, the level design is basic and there are a multitude of bugs and glitches.
-Within the unreleased assets, a video was shown of an unreleased 3DS build which seems to be more developed; sporting a new logo and a functioning title screen, though only a few seconds of gameplay were shown.
+Within the unreleased assets, a video was shown of an unreleased 3DS build which seems to be more developed, sporting a new logo and a functioning title screen, though only a few seconds of gameplay were shown.
 === Characters ===
 [[File:GDM-idle.gif|thumb|29x29px]]
-'''Grand Dad''' was the main character and the only one seen functioning in game. He functions like he did in [[7 GRAND DAD]], although he has a new move in the "dash". He can attack with his club and also charge his club by pressing down and holding the attack button respectively. He is also able to do a small dance by holding down the down button.
+Grand Dad was the main character of the game. He functions like he did in ''[[7 GRAND DAD]]'', although he has a new "dash" move. He can attack with his club and also charge his club by pressing down and holding the attack button respectively. He is also able to do a small dance by holding down the down button.
 [[File:Nozomi Idle.png|thumb|32x32px]]
-'''Smol Nozomi '''was a planned character. She could attack with and charge her hair, but seemingly also glide and run with it, spinning her ponytails like propellers to glide or move faster<ref name=":0">https://www.dropbox.com/s/awjx6x6zwuj12e2/ASSETS.zip?dl=0</ref>.
+Smol Nozomi was a planned character. She could perform an attack with her hair that could be charged. She seemed to be able to glide and run with her hair; Nozomi's sprites show her spinning her twintails as she moves.<ref name=":0">https://www.dropbox.com/s/awjx6x6zwuj12e2/ASSETS.zip?dl=0</ref>.
 [[File:Nigra Idle.png|thumb|37x37px]]
-'''Loud Nigra '''was also planned to make an appearance, though seemingly limited in his actions. He has a punching attack with no found charging animation and an idle animation where he takes the star of his crotch only to see an empty star-shaped hole that he stares at for a while before putting the star back<ref name=":0" />.
+Loud Nigra was also planned to make an appearance. He has a punching attack with the apparent ability to charge it, although charging animation was released in the prototype build. His idle animation shows him taking off the star on his crotch, revealing an empty star-shaped hole that he stares at for a while before putting the star back<ref name=":0" />.
+The version shown in "[[A Manic Announcement]]" showcases Nozomi and Nigra with new abilities similar to Tails and Knuckles, respectively.
 === Levels ===
+[[File:Level2.5.png|thumb|678x678px|The Grandiose City level. Note that the neon displaying "Fuck Bees" is changed to "Puzzle Room" in the actual build.]]Grandiose City (labelled as level 2.5 within the asset files) features buildings covered in memes and references. This level has extra background elements used for parallax scrolling.
-'''Bedrock '''is the starting level in the 3DS build, but the "secondary" level in the trailer build. It has few enemies, but all are dinosaur-esque, and it has Bedrock-styled houses all over the map.
-[[File:Lvl final.png|thumb|691x691px]]
+Bedrock is the starting level in the 3DS build, but the second level in the trailer build. It is styled after Bedrock from ''The Flintstones''. The level contains few enemies, and the enemies that exist all are dinosaur-esque.
-== Dev ==
+[[File:Lvl final.png|thumb|691x691px|The Bedrock level.]]
-[[File:Level2.5.png|thumb|678x678px|Note that the neon displaying "Fuck Bees" is changed to "Puzzle Room" in the actual build.]]'''Grandiose City''' (known as level 2.5 within assets, but most likely Grandiose city due to the lighthouse being clearly visible and nearby) is the grand new level introduced to the GRAND DAD franchise. It features buildings covered in memes and references (all references are documented [[Trailer Theme (In-Game Mix) - Sonic Mania|here]]). This level has extra background elements used for parallax scrolling.
+{{clear}}
 == Development ==
-The game was originally a joke when first shown with the trailer, but on October 25th 2016, MM102 announced that the game was being developed<ref>https://twitter.com/MM102_/status/791048827935404032</ref>.
+The game was originally a joke when first shown with the trailer, but on October 25th 2016, contributor [[MM102]] announced that the game was being developed<ref>https://twitter.com/MM102_/status/791048827935404032</ref>.
+Eventually, due to the lack of focus within the development team, and the large scope of the game, the game was cancelled. This was announced in a now-private video called "the nutshack theme but the first nutshack is replaced with me ending Grand Dad Mania" (a reference to "[[The nutshack theme but the first nutshack is replaced with me ending the channel]]") uploaded February 22nd 2017 by MM102<ref name=":1">"[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA2nC-nVzF8 the nutshack theme but the first nutshack is replaced with me ending Grand Dad Mania]"</ref>. This video also released the assets of the prototype build  that fans were free to use for their own versions of the game<ref name=":0" />.
-According to MM102 in the cancellation announcement, fans who started to actually make the game as "Grand Dad Mania" renamed it to "Grand Dad Remastered" to avoid confusion<ref name=":1">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA2nC-nVzF8</ref>.
+On August 20th 2017, "[[A Manic Announcement]]" teased footage of a more complete ''Grand Dad Mania'', though it was later clarified that the game was still cancelled<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx__PQLdbhg&lc=z23cgxxxruyfefvoj04t1aokg3w0m3kvlwvnxrhasr31rk0h00410.1503233678150167 YouTube comment] by [[sykhro]]</ref>.
-Eventually, due to the lack of focus within the development team, and how big of a game it actually had to be, the game was cancelled, with this being announced on February 22nd 2017<ref name=":1" />. The video uploaded was in a similar style to [[The nutshack theme but the first nutshack is replaced with me ending the channel]], but instead the first nutshack was replaced with the game being cancelled. This video also has a link to the Dropbox page where the assets can be found<ref name=":0" />.
+== Fan-made revivals ==
+=== Sonic Mania Mod ===
+A modification for ''Sonic Mania'' that included Nozomi Toujou as a playable character was announced by the Twitter account [https://twitter.com/GDMmod @GDMmod] (originally @GrandDadMania) on September 7. Originally called ''Nozomi Mania''<ref>YumeGipsu. "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKzl9-7wg2A Sonic Mania: Nozomi Mania Mod Pre-Release Trailer]". September 9, 2017.</ref>, the project eventually expanded its focus to not just Nozomi, but to a full modification of ''Sonic Mania'' into ''Grand Dad Mania''. This change was announced on September 15 with the video "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGI_7R4ej9A Nozomi Mania(?)'s Grand Announcement]". The development team included several SiIvaGunner contributors, such as [[CaptainComedy]], [[CrystalForce]], [[Dead Line]], [[Reach]], and [[toonlink]]. It has been cancelled as of July 2019<ref>[https://twitter.com/ceIshader/status/1151378776154136581 Tweet] by @ceIshader.</ref>.
+=== "Grand Dad Mania: Revived" Remake ===
+On September 24, 2017, [[Kolyasisan]] released an early tech demo of a Unity-remake of ''Grand Dad Mania''. Kolyasisan had previously worked on another fanwork called ''Grand Dad Mania Remastered'', but left the team when the development had ground to a halt. The project would later grow into a standalone fan-made game codenamed ''Grand Dad Mania: Revived''. The game appeared at ''Sonic'' fan game conference SAGE 2018 with a new demo. ''Revived'' was [https://youtu.be/HOrFk7iLADM?t=2106 revealed at F3] (a fanmade game version of E3) on July 7th 2018. In April 2019, the ''Revived'' team announced that development on the game had halted, and may or may not continue<ref>"[https://pchk.itch.io/grand-dad-mania/devlog/77803/the-state-of-development The State of Development]" on ''Grand Dad Mania: Revived'''s itch.io page</ref>. As of August 2019, the @GrandDadRevived Twitter account has been suspended for unknown reasons, leaving the remake's future uncertain.
+An [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p705wAstCLw announcement] on the project's YouTube account posted December 1, 2019 revealed that the team was still developing the project, and according to a [https://www.youtube.com/post/UgwecaPzOblu6715XBl4AaABCQ YouTube Community post], the mod is still in development as of September 2020.
 == Trivia ==
-[[File:NewGDMtitle.png|thumb|220x220px|3DS built title]]
+[[File:NewGDMtitle.png|thumb|220x220px|3DS build title]]
-* Despite the game being essentially nonexistent, there are still speedruns of the game. The current record for beating Grandiose City with any% is 29 seconds.
 * The logo used in the 3DS build can be found in the game assets. It has the pink text and almost identical font to the original 7 GRAND DAD, but with the "Mania" (high-quality) ripped straight from the Sonic Mania logo.
-* Despite Loud Nigra not having any sprites that suggest he can charge attacks, he has a red charging bar found in the HUD parts of the assets
+== References ==
+<references />[[Category:Content]]