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British author, screenwriter, and narrative designer
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Colin Harvey is a British author, screenwriter, narrative designer, and academic 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 and Battlefield 6.[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]
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- Comment: "References" heads a long list (currently "[50] [4] [3] [6]....") of reference indices -- for what? (For example, what is the assertion for which "[50]" is cited?)A remarkably high percentage of the references for this draft are to the writings of Colin Harvey. But what we need are references to material written by people independent of Harvey. Hoary (talk) 23:36, 18 February 2026 (UTC)
- Comment: In accordance with Wikipedia's Conflict of interest guideline, I disclose that I have a conflict of interest regarding the subject of this article. Playbotski (talk) 16:57, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
- BBC
- Sony
- Electronic Arts
- King's College London
- London South Bank University
- Bournemouth University
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| Education | PhD Play the Story – Embodiment and Emplacement in the Video Game, University of East London (2009) |
| Occupations | Author, screenwriter, narrative designer, academic |
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| Known for | Transmedia storytelling, narrative design, mythic worldbuilding |
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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 (19-23 age category, 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]
Career
Video games
According to his Writers’ Guild of Great Britain profile, 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.[2] He also worked as Narrative Director on Battlefield 6 for EA DICE and as Principal Writer on the upcoming Turok: Origins for Saber Interactive.[2] A profile published by Manchester Metropolitan University also notes his work on Rebellion’s Strange Brigade franchise.[1]
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
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] 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.[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.[13][14]
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) [15]
- Grand Theft Auto: Motion‑Emotion (Ludologica)[16]
- Play the Story - Embodiment and Emplacement in the Video Game — PhD thesis[17]
- “Random Access Memories - Screenwriting for Games” — in The Palgrave Handbook of Screenwriting (Palgrave)[18]
- "Transmedia Genres: Form, Content, and the Centrality of Memory" — in The Routledge Companion to Transmedia Studies (Routledge)[19]
Awards and recognition
Selected bibliography
Books
- Fantastic Transmedia - Narrative, Play and Memory Across Science Fiction and Fantasy Storyworlds (2015)[21]
- When Worlds Collide – How Video Games Reinvent Storytelling (2025)[7]
Fiction
- “The Stinker”[11]
- The Warriors of Forever: Sinbad, the New Voyages, Book 3[24]
- Doctor Who Short Trips: Snapshots: The Eyes Have It[25]
- Doctor Who Short Trips: Ghosts of Christmas: But Once a Year[26]
- Warhammer - Age of Sigmar: The Hunter’s Quarry[27]
Comics
- 2000AD — “Phase Shift” — Prog 1930[30]
- 2000AD — “Space Expectations” — Prog 2233[31]
- 2000AD — “Temporal Tantrum” - Prog 2256[32]
- Commando — “The Cold War” (#4683)[33]
- Sniper Elite 4 - Andartes[34]
Audio
- Highlander – Love and Hate[35]
- The Warriors of Forever: Sinbad, the New Voyages, Book 3 — audiobook edition, narrated by Jem Matzan, Airship 27 Productions[36]
Journalism and criticism
- The Guardian — "Spotty Youth Station" (8 August 1994).[8]
- Edge — "The Making of Attack of the Mutant Camels" (August 2002). Issue 113, pp. 102–105.[37]
- Edge — "The Making of Uridium" (June 2003). Issue 124, pp. 110–113.[38]
- ScriptWriter — "Do You Want to Wait for Godot? (Y/N)?" (2003). Issue 10, pp. 56–59.[39]
- Retro Gamer Anthology — "Star Raiders" (2004). pp. 144–145.[40]
- Weird Tales — "Undead and Loving It" (2023). Vol. 71, no. 371, pp. 32–41.[41]
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