Will Harvey
aka:
W. Harvey
Moby ID: 409
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From the www.crunchbase.com website:
Will Harvey is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who achieved early fame as an Apple II game programmer at the age of 15. Will is notably the founder of IMVU, an instant messaging company, and of There, Inc., an MMOG company.
The first game Harvey developed was 1982's Lancaster. The need for music in this game led to his development of 1984's heralded Music Construction Set, published by Electronic Arts (EA) and ported to the platforms of the era. After high school, Harvey studied computer science at Stanford University, where he earned his Bachelors, Masters, and Ph.D. During this period, he started two game development companies and published several additional titles through Electronic Arts.
In 1995, Harvey founded Sandcastle, an Internet technology company that addressed the network latency problems underlying virtual worlds and massively multiplayer games. Sandcastle was acquired by Adobe Systems.
In 1998, Harvey went on to found There, Inc., which produced a virtual 3D world designed for online socializing. In 2003, Harvey founded IMVU, which combined the idea of avatars with instant messaging.
Harvey is a frequent lecturer at Stanford and Berkeley in entrepreneurship.
<hr />Seems to be obsessed with isometric-perspective games. :-)
Credited on 8 games
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| There (2003, Windows) | Programming |
| Future Cop: L.A.P.D. (1998, Windows) | Engineers |
| Wing Nuts: Battle in the Sky (1996, DOS) | Additional Engineering |
| The Immortal (1990, Atari ST) | Game Design - Sandcastle |
| Will Harvey's Zany Golf (1989, Atari ST) | Written by |
| Marble Madness (1986, Atari ST) | By |
| Will Harvey's Music Construction Set (1984, PC Booter) | Original Concept |
| Lancaster (1983, Apple II) | By |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 3 games with Ian Gooding
- 3 games with Douglas Fulton
- 3 games with Brett G. Durrett
- 2 games with Rob Hubbard
- 2 games with Nancy L. Fong
- 2 games with William James Gin
- 2 games with Jim L. Nitchals
- 2 games with Matthew Fassberg
- 2 games with Richard McBride
- 2 games with Stewart J. Bonn
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Companies
- 5 games with Electronic Arts, Inc.
- 3 games with Sandcastle
- 2 games with Electronic Arts Ltd.
- 1 game with Western Images Ltd.
- 1 game with The Annex
- 1 game with House of Moves, Inc.
- 1 game with Visceral Games (Redwood Shores)
- 1 game with Atari Holdings, Inc.
- 1 game with Dice Multi Media Europe B.V.
- 1 game with There Inc
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