Achievement Hunter is a reality gaming series following the real-time gaming exploits of Geoff Ramsey, Jack Patillo, Gavin Free, Ray Narvaez Jr., Michael Jones, Ryan Haywood, and Caleb Denecour. They pursue the enjoyment of video games together with reckless abandon, dropping nuggets of emotional excitement, wisdom, and hilarity along the way.
Geoff Ramsey and Jack Patillo came up with the idea of a community gaming achievement website in 2008 – a fledgling of their production company Rooster Teeth Productions – and developed gaming guides and videos from there. Those gaming videos developed into several web series, with episodes of varying length (some episodes are 50 minutes, some are only 5 minutes) portraying live, actual gameplay with all players’ commentary dubbed over the action. These episodes are released once a week, or more. One of Achievement Hunter’s most popular series is called Let’s Play, where the gamer fellows enact gaming experiences in some favorite titles like Gears of War, Assassin’s Creed, and Minecraft.
The Achievement Hunter crew represents the epitome of irreverent, fun, spastic game culture, bringing the fringe into mainstream. They enjoy killing each other as much as they enjoy obtaining a new object or moving on to a new realm. In an on-going series called Let’s Play: Minecraft, gamer fellows Jack, Geoff, Michael, Gavin, Ray, and Ryan move about an open-world environment comprising three-dimensional block-like attributes. The player-characters themselves are block-like, and without specific goals. As is such, the guys play with as many of the games abilities and features as possible so as to obtain new objects and skills, and so as to expand their world. The real ‘plot’ (if there is one) exists in how far the rambling hosts are able to travel through the game together.
Day and night (game-standard time), the Achievement Hunter crew works hard breaking blocks with other blocks, and then building blocks with other blocks. During night-time and in various underground corners of the game, monsters are found and most-often destroyed. Always, hints and tricks towards accessing achievements are being revealed. If living as a three-dimensional block-like existence is an as-yet-unrealized dream, then it is worth it to play Minecraft through the Achievement Hunter web series.
