Harry Jarvis

I've been in the game business for about the last 12, 13 years. Prior to that, I was in the movie industry, which is how I came to know Chris Roberts. He hired me to come out for the live-action shoots for Wing Commander 3. They were sort of amazing, challenging, really intense and fun experiences, and so I hooked up with him for Wing Commander 4, worked with him on the Wing Commander movie, joined him at Digital Anvil for Freelancer, and then we kind of swapped careers and I stayed in games while Chris went to movies. And now we're back together.

How'd you get back together?

Well, I'd heard about Star Citizen, obviously, and had been talking to Chris and Eric Peterson over the last year or so as they got this up and running, and let them know that I was definitely really keen to join them again, and the opportunity arose and here I am.

I'm the art producer and outsource manager. I help the art team basically plan, figure out what we need to do, get stuff out for the schedule for things like the hangar release and those fun things. I work with all of our outsourced partners and vendors, make sure that we're keeping them fed, that we've got assets in their pipeline, that we're getting them feedback, making sure that they're giving us good-quality materials back in a timely manner, keeping track of all that, trying to keep us roughly on schedule and budget.

It's a lot to wrangle. Normally you have one or two outsourced partners, but we are spread all over.

We're going to be a lot. It's going to be very diffuse. Most outsourcing, you give them a list of things and you very carefully vet every little thing that comes back in, and they're just sort of a widget factory off somewhere else. Our outsource partners are very much partners. They have to have ownership. They really have to be part of our team.