Trevor Collins
Achievement Hunter logo used on their videos/website in 2016.
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| Division | |
| Industry | Entertainment |
| Genre | Comedy gaming, Let's Plays, game walkthroughs |
| Founded | July 6, 2008 |
| Founders | Geoff Ramsey Jack Pattillo |
| Headquarters | Austin, Texas, United States |
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Key people
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Geoff Ramsey Jack Pattillo Gavin Free Michael Jones Ryan Haywood Jeremy Dooley Trevor Collins Lindsay Jones |
| Services | Online video Community website |
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Number of employees
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18 |
| Parent | Rooster Teeth |
| Website | Official Website |
Achievement Hunter is an American video gaming website and a division of Rooster Teeth Productions. Founded by Geoff Ramsey and Jack Pattillo on July 6, 2008, the website is largely based on the achievement mechanic found in seventh and eighth generation video game consoles. Since its founding, Achievement Hunter has grown to become a core component of Rooster Teeth, hosting a wide variety of videos related to video games. The most frequent videos are hosted by the six most prolific employees: Geoff Ramsey, Jack Pattillo, Gavin Free, Michael Jones, Ryan Haywood, and Jeremy Dooley.
Achievement Hunter has a large presence on YouTube – where it runs four different channels: Achievement Hunter, LetsPlay, GameFails and LetsPlay Community – garnering a combined total of 5.8 million subscribers and 2 billion video views.
In 2008, Geoff Ramsey's interest in gaming achievements resulted in the realization that no community-based website related to achievements existed.
“Well Burnie and I were both huge achievement fans… and we were constantly racing each other to get more achievements – trying to outdo each other for gamerscore – and to that end we were playing at ton of games in our free time and trying to find information about how to get certain achievements online and it was a bit of a crapshoot… there were a few site you could go and look at… but I’m kind of a visual dude, and it really helps me if I can sit down and watch a video… So we were talking about how great it would be if a site like that existed one day and how helpful it would be for us and I said “Fuck it, I’ll just make that site” and decided to do that…”
As a result, Ramsey approached Burnie Burns, then CEO of Rooster Teeth, about creating a website based on achievements; Burns agreed, and Ramsey created Achievement Hunter, which shares a similar design to the main Rooster Teeth website. Ramsey later elaborated, saying he had grown tired of making Red vs. Blue and enjoyed working on this new, creative outlet in his spare time. Alongside employee Jack Pattillo, Ramsey regularly released achievement guides and Easter egg videos, often receiving assistance from select volunteers from the Rooster Teeth community. David Dreger also assisted in the founding of the site.
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