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Colin Harvey

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Colin Harvey
Born
🏳️ NationalityBritish
🏫 EducationPhD Play the Story – Embodiment and Emplacement in the Video Game, University of East London (2009)
💼 Occupation
Author, screenwriter, narrative designer, academic
👔 Employer
  • BBC
  • Sony
  • Electronic Arts
  • King's College London
  • London South Bank University
  • Bournemouth University
Known forTransmedia storytelling, narrative design, mythic worldbuilding
Notable work
  • Fantastic Transmedia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
  • When Worlds Collide – How Video Games Reinvent Storytelling (Canbury Press, 2025)
  • Blood & Truth (Sony London Studio, 2019)
  • Sniper Elite 4 (Rebellion Developments, 2017)
  • Turok: Origins (Saber forthcoming)
🏅 Awards
  • BBC Young Radio Critic of the Year (1993)
  • Pulp Idol – SFX Magazine / Gollancz Writing Prize (2006)
  • Edge Magazine PlayStation Game of the Year – Blood & Truth (2019)

Colin Harvey is a British author, screenwriter, narrative designer, academic, and cultural commentator whose work spans video games, prose fiction, comics, radio, journalism, and scholarly publishing. He is known for his contributions to AAA video games, including Blood & Truth, Sniper Elite 4, Battlefield 6, and Turok: Origins.[1][2] Harvey is the author of the academic monograph Fantastic Transmedia - Narrative, Play and Memory Across Science Fiction and Fantasy Storyworlds, which has been the subject of peer-reviewed scholarly analysis.[3] He also wrote and presented the BBC Radio 4 documentary The Origins of the Metaverse.[4][5]

Early life and education

In 1983, the eleven-year-old Harvey was a runner-up in the national “Design a Home of the Future” competition run by the Daily Express newspaper. Representing Canford Heath Middle School in Poole, Dorset, he was among a group of young award winners selected from across the UK. His prize included an Atari 800 home computer, which sparked his early interest in games and interactive storytelling.[6][7]

Harvey went on to win the BBC Young Radio Critic of the Year award for 1994 (conferred at the end of 1993), which led to his first national publication as a writer for The Guardian.[8]

He was later shortlisted in the BBC First Bite Festival in 1999 for his radio drama script The Cost of a Week in ’69, and in the BBC Talent 2000 competition for his television sitcom script Fans.[9][10] In 2006, his original short story The Stinker won the first Pulp Idol award, jointly conferred by SFX Magazine and Gollancz Books.[11]

In 2009 he earned a PhD exploring the interrelationship of storytelling and play in video game media from the University of East London.[12]

Career

Journalism and criticism

Harvey has maintained an active parallel career as a journalist and cultural commentator, writing on video games, media, and digital culture for national newspapers, specialist games magazines, and online cultural outlets. His work has appeared in publications such as The Guardian, Edge magazine, Develop (UK magazine), Retro Gamer, ScriptWriter magazine, Weird Tales, and PopMatters, where he contributed a regular column on video game culture.[2] His non-fiction book When Worlds Collide – How Video Games Reinvent Storytelling (2025) examines how video games reshape storytelling and worldbuilding techniques from other media, informed by both industry practice and academic insights.[13][14]

Video games

Harvey’s video game story design and writing credits include Sniper Elite 4 for Rebellion Developments and the VR thriller Blood & Truth for Sony's London Studio, starring Colin Salmon, Natasha Little and Felix Scott. He was also Principal Writer on the forthcoming Turok: Origins for Saber Interactive and worked as Narrative Director on Battlefield 6 for EA DICE.[2] Profiles published by Manchester Metropolitan University and the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain also note his work on Rebellion’s Strange Brigade franchise.[1][2]

Selected video game credits

  • Sniper Elite 4 — Narrative Designer and Writer
  • Blood & Truth — Co‑writer and Senior Narrative Designer
  • Turok: Origins — Principal Writer
  • Battlefield 6 — Narrative Director

Fiction and comics

Harvey has written prose fiction across multiple genres and formats, including short stories, a novel, a novella, and licensed tie‑in works. His publications include the novella Dead Kelly which appeared in the collection Journal of the Plague Year (Abaddon Books 2014) alongside novellas by Adrian Tchaikovsky and Malcolm Cross. [15][16] He has also written short stories for Big Finish Productions’ BBC-licensed Doctor Who range,[17][18] and fiction for Black Library's Warhammer Age of Sigmar.[19]

Harvey's other prose fiction includes short stories for the pulp publisher Moonstone Books' Black Bat and Domino Patrick series.[20][21]

Harvey has also written for 2000AD (comics) and Commando (comics). He also wrote the script for Andartes, the official Sniper Elite 4 prequel comic.[22][23][24][25][26][27]

Audio

Harvey wrote the audio drama Highlander – Love and Hate for Big Finish Productions starring Adrian Paul and Beth Chalmers, part of the Highlander franchise.[28]

He also wrote and presented the hour-long BBC Radio 4 documentary The Origins of the Metaverse for the Archive on 4 strand, exploring the development of digital worlds through archival material, interviews, readings and dramatized sequences.[4][29]

Academic work

Academic appointments

Harvey has held academic positions at Bournemouth University, London South Bank University, Western Sydney University, King’s College London, and Manchester Metropolitan University.[1][2] He devised and delivered the BA (Hons) Game Cultures degree at LSBU.[30] His MMU profile highlights his industry work in video games, his licensed fiction and comics writing, and his academic contributions to transmedia storytelling.[1]

Publications and research

Harvey is the author of Fantastic Transmedia - Narrative, Play and Memory Across Science Fiction and Fantasy Storyworlds (2015), an academic study of crossmedia storytelling and worldbuilding in franchises such as Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, Halo, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Marvel Cinematic Universe.[31]

His academic writing addresses topics such as multimodal memory in game and virtual reality storytelling.[32] His doctoral thesis, Play the Story: Embodiment and Emplacement in the Video Game (2009), examined the relationship between player experience and narrative formations in video games using ideas of memory and affect.[12]

Harvey’s academic work has been cited in studies of transmedia storytelling, memory, and digital culture, including analyses of narrative structure and cross‑media worldbuilding.[33][34]

Selected academic publications

  • “Remembrance of Things Fast - Conceptualizing Nostalgic-Play in the Battlestar Galactica Video Game” — co-authored with Anna Reading in Playing the Past: History and Nostalgia in Video Games (Vanderbilt) [35]
  • Grand Theft Auto: Motion‑Emotion (Ludologica)[36]
  • Play the Story - Embodiment and Emplacement in the Video Game — PhD thesis[12]
  • “Random Access Memories - Screenwriting for Games” — in The Palgrave Handbook of Screenwriting (Palgrave)[37]
  • "Transmedia Genres: Form, Content, and the Centrality of Memory" — in The Routledge Companion to Transmedia Studies (Routledge)[38]

Awards and recognition

  • Winner BBC Young Radio Critic of the Year (1994)[39]
  • Shortlisted BBC First Bite Festival (1999)[9]
  • Shortlisted BBC Talent 2000[10]
  • Winner Pulp Idol award (2006)[11]
  • Edge preview praising Blood & Truth's dialogue as "note-perfect epithets of modern-day London"[40]
  • Edge magazine awarded Blood & Truth PlayStation Game of the Year (2019)[41]

Selected bibliography

Books

  • Fantastic Transmedia - Narrative, Play and Memory Across Science Fiction and Fantasy Storyworlds (2015)[42]
  • When Worlds Collide – How Video Games Reinvent Storytelling (2025)[43]

Fiction

  • The Warriors of Forever: Sinbad, the New Voyages, Book 3[44][45]
  • Doctor Who Short Trips: Snapshots: The Eyes Have It[17]
  • Doctor Who Short Trips: Ghosts of Christmas: But Once a Year[18]
  • Warhammer - Age of Sigmar: The Hunter’s Quarry[19]
  • Short fiction for Black Bat, Domino Patrick [20][21]

Comics

  • 2000AD — Prog 1930[46]
  • 2000AD — Prog 2233[25]
  • 2000AD — Prog 2256[24]
  • Commando — “The Cold War” (#4683)[26]
  • Sniper Elite 4 - Andartes[27]

Audio

  • Highlander – Love and Hate[28]
  • The Warriors of Forever: Sinbad, the New Voyages, Book 3 — audiobook edition, narrated by Jem Matzan, Airship 27 Productions[47]
  • The Origins of the Metaverse - BBC Radio Four - Archive on 4[4][29]

References

Harvey, Colin (2003). "Do you want to wait for Godot (Y/N)?". ScriptWriter. No. 10. pp. 56–59.</ref>[48]

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Colin Harvey - Lead Writer at Sony PlayStation London Studio". MMU. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Colin Harvey – Writers' Guild of Great Britain". WGGB. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
  3. ↑ Koistinen, Aino-Kaisa; Välisalo, Tanja (2024). "Review of Fantastic Transmedia – Narrative, Play and Memory Across Science Fiction and Fantasy Storyworlds" (PDF). Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research. 11 (3): 74–76. Retrieved 19 February 2026.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "The Origins of the Metaverse". BBC Sounds. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 2026-02-19.
  5. ↑ O'Hagan, Simon (12–18 March 2022). "Archive on 4: The Origins of the Metaverse". Radio Times. p. 118.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Sue Reid, "'First time' boys win our £3,500 prize," Daily Express, 1983. Newspaper clipping.
  7. ↑ Harvey, Colin (2015). Fantastic Transmedia: Narrative, Play and Memory Across Science Fiction and Fantasy Storyworlds. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137399734 Check |isbn= value: checksum (help). Search this book on
  8. ↑ Harvey, Colin (8 August 1994). "Spotty Youth Station". The Guardian.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 "BBC First Bite Festival Shortlist" (Letter). BBC. 1999.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 "BBC Talent 2000 Shortlist" (Letter). BBC. 2000.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 "Author Interview: Colin Harvey". GamesRadar. Retrieved 2025-08-01.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Harvey, Colin (2009). Play the Story: Embodiment and Emplacement in the Video Game (Thesis). University of East London.
  13. ↑ Harvey, Colin (2025). When Worlds Collide – How Video Games Reinvent Storytelling. Canbury Press. ISBN 9781914487347. Search this book on
  14. ↑ "When Worlds Collide – How Video Games Reinvent Storytelling". Simon & Schuster UK. Simon & Schuster. Retrieved 19 February 2026.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 "CB Harvey interview". Abaddon Books. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 Harvey, Colin (2008). Dead Kelly. Abaddon Books. Search this book on
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 Short Trips: Snapshots. Big Finish. 2007. Search this book on
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 Short Trips: The Ghosts of Christmas. Big Finish. 2007. Search this book on
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 Untamed Realms. Black Library. 2023. Search this book on
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 The Black Bat Returns. Moonstone. 2012. Search this book on
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 "Domino Patrick arrives in December at Moonstone Books". Major Spoilers. 12 October 2021. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
  22. ↑ John Freeman (2021-06-30). "Tube Surfing: New Beano, 2000AD – and a ComicScene "Best of Indie" Summer Special Cover Reveal". DownTheTubes. Retrieved 19 February 2026.
  23. ↑ John Freeman (2021-09-22). "Jump On Board 2000AD with This Week's Introduction Prog – and Check Out the New Best of 2000AD, Too". DownTheTubes. Retrieved 19 February 2026.
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 "Prog 2256". 2000AD. 2020.
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 25.2 "Prog 2233". 2000AD. 2021.
  26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 26.2 "Commando #4683: The Cold War". Commando. 2013.
  27. ↑ 27.0 27.1 27.2 "Andartes – Sniper Elite 4 Prequel Comic" (PDF). Rebellion. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
  28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 28.2 Highlander – Love and Hate. Big Finish. 2009.
  29. ↑ 29.0 29.1 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named radiotimes-origins
  30. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named develop-motionemotion
  31. ↑ Harvey, Colin (2015). Fantastic Transmedia – Narrative, Play and Memory Across Science Fiction and Fantasy Storyworlds. Palgrave Macmillan. Search this book on
  32. ↑ "Multimodal Memory in Game and Virtual Reality Storytelling". School of Advanced Study, University of London. Retrieved 19 February 2026.
  33. ↑ Freeman, Matthew (2016). Historicising Transmedia Storytelling: Early Twentieth-Century Transmedia Story Worlds. Routledge. p. 42. Search this book on
  34. ↑ Proctor, William (2018). Freeman, Matthew, ed. Global Convergence Cultures: Transmedia Earth. Routledge. p. 87. Search this book on
  35. ↑ Harvey, Colin; Reading, Anna (2008). "Remembrance of Things Fast – Conceptualizing Nostalgic-Play in the Battlestar Galactica Video Game". In Whalen, Zach; Taylor, Laurie N. Playing the Past: History and Nostalgia in Video Games. Vanderbilt University Press. Search this book on
  36. ↑ 36.0 36.1 "Grand Theft Auto: Motion‑Emotion". Ludologica. 2005.
  37. ↑ Harvey, Colin (2023). "Random Access Memories – Screenwriting for Games". In Davies, Rosamund et al. (eds.). The Palgrave Handbook of Screenwriting. Palgrave Macmillan.
  38. ↑ 38.0 38.1 Harvey, Colin. "Transmedia Genres: Form, Content, and the Centrality of Memory." In The Routledge Companion to Transmedia Studies, edited by Matthew Freeman and Renira Rampazzo Gambarato. Routledge, 2018.
  39. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named guardian-radio-critic
  40. ↑ 40.0 40.1 "Blood & Truth". Edge. No. 322. 2019. p. 34.
  41. ↑ "PlayStation Game of the Year 2019: Blood & Truth". Edge. No. 341. 2020. p. 70.
  42. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named palgrave-fantastic-transmedia
  43. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named canbury-wwc
  44. ↑ 44.0 44.1 "The Warriors of Forever: Sinbad, the New Voyages, Book 3". WorldCat. Airship 27 Productions. 2016. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
  45. ↑ 45.0 45.1 "The Warriors of Forever: Sinbad, the New Voyages, Book 3". WorldCat. Airship 27 Productions. 2016. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
  46. ↑ 46.0 46.1 "Prog 1930". 2000AD. 2015.
  47. ↑ 47.0 47.1 The Warriors of Forever: Sinbad, the New Voyages, Book 3 audiobook edition. Amazon UK. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01EZ32M1C
  48. ↑ Harvey, Colin (2025). "Undead and Loving It". Weird Tales. Vol. 71 no. 371. pp. 32–41.
  49. ↑ "SFX Magazine announces winner of inaugural writing prize". Campaign. Retrieved 14 January 2026.
  50. ↑ "Blood & Truth: How to script a PS VR blockbuster". PlayStation Blog. Sony Interactive Entertainment. 28 May 2020. Retrieved 21 January 2026.
  51. ↑ Colin Harvey (6 December 2016). "Sniper Elite 4: Inside the Italian Campaign". PlayStation Blog. Sony Interactive Entertainment. Retrieved 21 January 2026.
  52. ↑ Harvey, Colin (24 October 2005). "Noks Collecting Battles: Power and Responsibility". PopMatters. Retrieved 21 January 2026.

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