Colin B Harvey

Colin Harvey is a writer working across video games, Virtual Reality, books, comics and radio/audio. He was co-writer and Senior Narrative Designer on the critically acclaimed PlayStation VR game Blood and Truth (Sony 2019) starring Colin Salmon, Natasha Little and Felix Scott. More recently he was Narrative Director with Criterion, an Electronic Arts studio, and Principal Writer with Saber Interactive, where he created the story and world for the new Turok: Origins game. Previously he worked on Rebellion's Sniper Elite and Strange Brigade franchises.

Outside of video games, he has written licensed material for Big Finish's Doctor Who and Highlander ranges, short fiction for Black Library's Warhammer - Age of Sigmar, pulp stories for Moonstone Books and the novella 'Dead Kelly' for Abaddon Books' Afterblight shared storyworld. His comic work includes stories for 2000AD and Commando and his original short fiction won the first Pulp Idol award, jointly conferred by SFX Magazine and Gollancz.

As an academic, Colin has taught, researched and written extensively on the subjects of video game storytelling, digital narrative and transmedia storytelling at institutions including King's College London, Bournemouth University, London South Bank University and Western Sydney University. He has a PhD in video game storytelling and wrote Fantastic Transmedia (Palgrave 2015), an analysis of crossmedia storytelling in science fiction and fantasy franchises. In 2022 he wrote and presented 'The Origins of the Metaverse' for BBC Radio Four.