Game Grumps

Game Grumps is a Let's Play series on YouTube. The show was started by Arin Hanson and Jon Jafari in 2012. Dan Avidan joined the series as co-host in 2013, following Jafari's departure. Since 2016, Hanson and Avidan have performed a live stage show called Game Grumps Live.

On March 27, 2018, Game Grumps released the first of many videos featuring Hanson and Avidan playing House Party. By June 4 the show had released a total of 20 episodes about the game. In this playthrough a number of popular running gags were introduced, most notably Arin and Dan doing exaggerated impressions of Frank's catchphrase "How's it going, dude?"

On September 27, Eek! Games announced a contest for fans to audition to join the cast of House Party with a $1000 cash prize for the winners, with one winner each in male and female categories. Shortly after the contest was announced, a fan entered Dan into the contest, but the entry was disqualified by Eek!, as the contest rules required entrants to be submitted with permission of the entrant (i.e.: not by a third party). On October 3, the Game Grumps announced that they had submitted their own entry into the contest, with the intent of donating the prize money to RAINN. They quickly dominated the voting, having already received 32% of the overall votes by the time of their announcement and having 67% of the vote as of October 15. Eek! announced on November 2 that the Game Grumps won the male category, while model and game streamer Lety Does Stuff won in the female category.

In October 2019, Eek! began revealing teasers for the Game Grumps content. By November, Eek! had completed the scripts for the characters Arin and Dan, and had submitted them for Hanson and Avidan's approval, with VA to follow. A few days later, they teased some of the content they would include with the Game Grumps' characters, as well as some testing images in December. The alpha release of the Game Grumps update v.0.16.2 was made available for Patreon supporters on January 10, 2020. They later released a teaser trailer for the Game Grumps update on January 30 on YouTube, stating that the Game Grumps had completed their voice capture work for the content.

The Game Grumps stable update (v.0.16.5) was released on March 24, 2020. Gameplay was streamed on the game's Steam store page by Game Society Pimps that day. The addition was given news coverage by PC Gamer, TechRaptor, Prima Games, COGconnected, TheGamer, and The Escapist.

On May 15, 2020, the Game Grumps began a new run of House Party videos, starting with the new Game Grumps content. A total of 15 House Party episodes were released in 2020. The show revisited House Party in March 2022, with a one-off episode to reveal Doja Cat as the next guest celebrity joining the game.

Game content

Within the world of House Party, Arin and Dan are traveling via hot air balloon to a Game Grumps Live show near the site of the party. Katherine is a fan but is unable to attend. During Game Jam she and the player come up with a way to trick the Grumps into landing at the house. Without their phones or their balloon, the Grumps are stranded and desperate to get to the show before it's too late. In Return of the Grumps the player can try to help them escape the house, or just follow them around watching them react to the party.

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House Party 0.16.x Game Grumps Trailer

BWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...

Yeah there ya go...oh! OH! OH! Right in the FACE!

Hold the fuckin phone...

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