Ivan Gonzales (born: July 25, 2003) better known online as IvanG Games (or simply IvanG), is a Filipino YouTuber, Game Developer, and creator of JOLLY series.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
Ivan was born in July 25, 2003. He created his YouTube channel in May 31, 2014, and his GameJolt Jan 31, 2015.
Not much is known during his early life, but he has stated that he was scared of Jollibee's when he was little, hence the JOLLY games coming to life. But before the JOLLY series, he has made other Five Nights at Freddy's fangames before making Jolly in July 16, 2016.
Five Nights in Minecraft[]
His infamous FNaF fangame series before JOLLY is the Five Nights in Minecraft series, featuring the original Five Nights at Freddy's 2 and Five Nights at Freddy's 3 stylized into a Minecraft-like fangame. He also made the third game in the series, which had original gameplay unlike the first two, but was cancelled. His latest and final Five Nights in Minecraft fangame is a remaster of the first game, which was made after Jolly. The series got into slight popularity due to YouTubers playing it on their videos, such as IULITMx and DanTDM.
JOLLY & Jollibee's[]
When Jolly was first released, it gained a lot of popularity in the FNaF community and was praised for it's gameplay. This motivated Ivan to create more Jolly fangames from 2016 to 2018.
He would then make the Jollibee's series from 2019 to 2020. However, due to the Jollibee's copyright infringement, IvanG was contacted by a lawyer from the Jollibee Foods Corporation, requesting him to remove all of his games related to Jollibee and even cancelling development of Jollibee's As Above So Below. Many fans were confused and demanded an answer as to why IvanG removed those games. IvanG went on to make a post on his Gamejolt account, discussing the reason why he removed those games, why he made them, and told his fans to move on. This left a huge impact on IvanG as he didn't come back online for the rest of the year.
Return & JOLLY 4[]
However, he would then make a comeback by revealing Jolly 4, and although it got leaked earlier, he would not be cancelling it and is never giving up to surprise the community
On January 21st, 2025, IvanG would officially announce that the original version of game would be cancelled after nearly four years of development due to extreme mismanagement from Weshek, specifically by overworking and underpaying the developer team (most of whom were minors), lying about it outside of private developer circles, as well as having them sign contracts to not tell anyone about it. A demo build of the game would eventually be released around the same time, showing off what the game would've been like.
The game would be basically canceled and put on hiatus forever until Ivan decides to come back to it.
List of Games[]
JOLLY Games[]
- JOLLY
- JOLLY 2
- JOLLY 3: Chapter 1
- JOLLY 3: Chapter 2
- JOLLY 4 (Cancelled)
Other[]
- Pixel Run
- University
- Five Nights in Minecraft: Remastered
- Don't Drop The Controller Chapter 2
- Monkey Ascend!
- Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Tycoon
Hidden/Deleted[]
- Five Nights in Minecraft: The Classic Collection
- Five Nights in Minecraft Android Collection
- Jollibee's
- Jollibee's: Phase 2
- Jollibee's: As Above So Below (Cancelled)
Trivia[]
- According to Kane Carter on Discord, the Jolly series was going to be part of The Fazbear Fanverse Initiative. However, Scott was unaware that the Jolly series used copyrighted material. Not only that, IvanG released a teaser for the Fanverse on Twitter before even responding to Scott, alerting the other Fanverse developers of his involvement. After informing Scott of the copyrighted material and the teaser, IvanG was removed from The Fazbear Fanverse Initiative.
- As stated by Weshek, Ivan was 13 years old when he was making Jolly, meaning as of now, he is currently 19.
- He voiced the omniscient voice from Jollibee's: Phase 2.