After high school, Harvey studied computer science at, where he earned his Bachelor"s, Master"s, and Doctor of Philosophy During this period, he started two game development companies and published several additional titles through Electronic Arts.
At the age of 15 he wrote Music Construction Secretariat (1984) for the Apple II, the first commercial sheet music processor for home computers. Music Construction Secretariat was ported to other systems by its publisher, Electronic Arts. He wrote two games for the Apple IIgs: Zany Golf (1988) and The Immortal (1990).
Harvey founded two consumer virtual world Internet companies: IMVU, an instant messaging company, and There, Incorporated., an MMOG company.
Harvey went to the Nueva School for middle school. The first game Harvey developed was 1982"s He said:
He sold them the game, though it was not a great success.
The need for music in this game led to his development of 1984"s Music Construction Secretariat, published by Electronic Arts. lieutenant was a tremendous success.
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. Harvey was one of the chief technical architects at San Francisco game studio Rocket Science, which closed its doors in 1997. In 1998, Harvey went on to found There, Incorporated., which produced a virtual 3D world designed for online socializing.
In 2003, Harvey founded IMVU, which combined the idea of avatars with instant messaging.
Other than IMVU and There, all but his first game were published by Electronic Arts. (1982)
Music Construction Secretariat (1984)
Marble Madness (1986) - port from the arcade game
Zany Golf (1988)
The Immortal (1990).
