Andy Gavin

Quick Facts

Full Name	Andy Gavin
Occupation	Game Designer
Date Of Birth	Jun 11, 1970(1970-06-11)
Age	54
Birthplace	Washington
Country	United States
Birth City	Washington, D.C.
Horoscope	Gemini

Andy Gavin Biography

Andy Gavin is one of the most popular and richest Game Designer who was born on June 11, 1970 in Washington, Washington, D.C., United States. Programmer and game designer known for being one of the founders of the gaming company Naughty Dog. He was personally involved in more than a dozen games with Naughty Dog, including Crash Bandicoot and Jak & Daxter.

Amy Hennig has also worked for Naughty Dog.

Gavin and Rubin sold their first video game, Math Jam, in 1985. In 1989, they sold Keef the Thief to Electronic Arts. In the early ’90s, their fighting game, Way of the Warrior, led to a multi-title deal with Universal Interactive Studios. It was under the auspices of this Universal deal that they produced the multi-million selling Crash Bandicoot series from 1994 until 1999, and later segued into the critically acclaimed Jak and Daxter series of games. At the end of 2000, Rubin and Gavin sold Naughty Dog to Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA). All in all, they created 14 Naughty Dog games, including Math Jam (1985), Ski Crazed (1986), Dream Zone (1987), Keef the Thief (1989), Rings of Power (1991), Way of the Warrior (1994), Crash Bandicoot (1996), Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back (1997), Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped (1998), Crash Team Racing (1999), Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy (2001), Jak II (2003), Jak 3 (2004), and Jak X: Combat Racing (2005). Together, these games have sold over 35 million units and generated over $1 billion in revenue.

Shortly after leaving Naughty Dog in 2004, Gavin co-founded a new Internet startup called Flektor with his former business partner, Jason Rubin, and former HBO executive Jason R. Kay. In May 2007, the company was sold to Fox Interactive Media, which is a division of News Corp. Fox has described the company as: “a next-generation Web site that provides users with a suite of Web-based tools to transform their photos and videos into dynamic slideshows, postcards, live interactive presentations, and video mash-ups.” In October 2007, Flektor partnered with its sister company MySpace, and MTV to provide instant audience feedback via polls for the interactive MySpace / MTV Presidential Dialogues series with then-presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama.

He grew up in Washington, DC.

Andy Gavin Net Worth

Andy Gavin is one of the richest Game Designer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Andy Gavin 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

After getting an undergraduate degree at Haverford College, he attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He worked at NASA’s JPL while in college.

Naughty Dog was sold to Sony in 2000. He later founded Flektor and Monkey Gods and published his first novel in 2011.

Andrew Scott “Andy” Gavin (born June 11, 1970) is an American video game programmer, designer, entrepreneur, and novelist. In the video game industry, he is known for co-founding the video game company Naughty Dog with childhood friend Jason Rubin in 1986, where games such as Crash Bandicoot and Jak & Daxter were released to critical acclaim. The sophistication of Naughty Dog technology is often credited to Gavin’s background in LISP at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

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Facts & Trivia

Andy Ranked on the list of most popular Game Designer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Andy Gavin celebrates birthday on June 11 of every year.

What does Andy Gavin do now?

Andy Gavin
Occupation| Entrepreneur game designer novelist programmer
Years active| 1984–present
Employer| Polaris (2019–present) Maker Studios/Disney Digital Network (2015–2019) Naughty Dog (1984–2004)

How much money did Crash Bandicoot make?

The Crash Bandicoot series has been a major international success, selling over 160 million in dollars and is the 25th best-selling series as of March 31, 2011 with around 40 million copies sold since its debut in 1996.

Who Owns Crash Bandicoot?

Xbox Now Owns Legendary PlayStation Series Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon. A curious consequence of Microsoft’s earth-shattering $70 billion buyout of Activision is that Xbox now owns legendary PlayStation franchises Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon.

What creature is Crash Bandicoot?

Introduced in the 1996 video game Crash Bandicoot, Crash is a mutant eastern barred bandicoot who was genetically enhanced by the series’ main antagonist Doctor Neo Cortex and soon escaped from Cortex’s castle after a failed experiment in the “Cortex Vortex”.

Is Crash Bandicoot popular in Japan?

The original trilogy became one of the most successful Western video games in the history of the Japanese market. These three video games, developed for the first PlayStation, sold more than 10 million copies, 4 million of which were sold in Japan. For a Western production, they were a huge hit in that key market.