In May 2007, the company was sold to Fox Interactive Media, a division of News Corp. Shortly after leaving Naughty Dog in 2004, Gavin and Rubin co-founded a new Internet startup called Flektor with former HBO executive Jason R. These included innovations in terms of language choice and design. While at Naughty Dog, Gavin developed two LISP dialects for use in game development, Game Object Oriented Lisp (GOOL) and its successor Game Oriented Assembly Lisp (GOAL). At the end of 2000, Rubin and Gavin sold Naughty Dog to Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA), having released 14 Naughty Dog games, which together sold over 35 million units and generated over $1 billion in revenue. Under the auspices of this Universal deal they produced the Crash Bandicoot series from 1994 until 1999, and later the Jak and Daxter series. In the early 1990s, their fighting game, Way of the Warrior, led to a multi-title deal with Universal Interactive Studios. In 1989, they sold Keef the Thief to Electronic Arts. Gavin and Rubin sold their first video game, Math Jam, in 1985.

Gavin at the Naughty Dog Wrap Party, Santa Monica, CA, 2009 As a student, Gavin learned the LISP computer programming language, and developed a number of custom programming languages that were later used for the graphics, controls, sounds, and artificial intelligence in Naughty Dog video games. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, conducting research for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the Mars Rover Vision Project, under advisor Rod Brooks. Gavin earned a Bachelor of Science in Neurobiological Science from Haverford College. Prior to founding Naughty Dog, Gavin worked in LISP at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Gavin co-founded the video game company Naughty Dog with childhood friend Jason Rubin in 1986, which released games including Crash Bandicoot and Jak and Daxter.

Maker Studios/Disney Digital Network (2015–2019)Īndrew Scott Gavin (born June 11, 1970) is an American video game programmer, entrepreneur, and novelist.

The Darkening Dream by Andy Gavin