Background
Smith, Harvey was born in December 1966.
Smith, Harvey was born in December 1966.
Smith has lectured in various places around the world on topics such as level design, emergent gameplay, leadership, game unit differentiation, future trends and interactive narrative. Early in his career, Smith worked in Quaid-i-Azam at the Austin-based Origin Systems, where he became the Quaid-i-Azam Lead for System Shock. After leaving Origin in 1996, Harvey Smith went to work at Multitude where they released Fireteam.
After Multitude, Smith’s game development career continued in Austin working with Warren Spector at Ion Storm as Lead Designer on the award-winning Deus Ex as well as its sequel, Deus Ex: Invisible War.
Smith left Ion Storm to work at Midway Games as Lead Designer on BlackSite: Area 51. On November 29, 2007, Harvey Smith, as designer of BlackSite: Area 51, came out publicly to announce how unrealistic the game"s development schedule was and through mutual agreement left Midway a day later.
He claimed the schedule caused the low reviews due to the fact they were not able to test the game properly. In 2008, Smith became partner and co-creative director of Arkane Studios in Austin alongside the company’s president, Raphael Colantonio.
Smith’s novel, Big Jack is Dead, was released on April 2, 2013 by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.
That same year it was on Kirkus Review’s list of “Best Indie General Fiction”.
Married Rebekah M. Smith.
