Cam Rogers

Narrative Designer, Senior Game Writer, Voice Director

“The way his mind works is staggering”

— Sam Lake, Remedy Entertainment"

about me

Writer and creator of unique and compelling IP, vivid characters, memorable dialog and extraordinary settings for AAA, mobile and publishing.

Self-motivated and highly intelligent problem-solver who thrives on collaboration and knows how to manage creative teams.

Specializes in brainstorming for speed, novelty, resonance, and quality.

My first novel has garnered the interest of a major studio.

Work History

Lead Writer, Narrative Designer, Voice Director, Digital Extremes
Warframe, Digital Extremes, 2017–2025

• Worldbuilding. Developed the distinctive and diverse cultures, lexicon, dialogue, characters, quests and lore for Warframe’s first three tentpole open-world expansions.
• Narrative designer for the Deimos open world expansion. Hand-picked, hired, and led a team of three new writers to great success on a very tight deadline.
• Praised for representation of queer characters.
• Took writing and world development from weeks behind schedule to 4+ months ahead of schedule.
• Quest dev, item/weapon naming and lore, etc.
• Wrote collectible fiction to great fan response.
• Road mapping future expansions.
• Created Voice Director role for myself. Cast and directed performance for nearly all NPCs, major and minor. Credited with the 180-degree shift in Warframe’s script and performance quality. Dropped casting and booking time from 2 weeks to as low as five hours.

Writer, Remedy Entertainment
Quantum Break, 2012–2015

• “The way his mind works is staggering.” – Sam Lake
• Worked closely with creative director, other writers, content team leads, Microsoft reps and designers to determine narrative, lore, dialogue, and VO needs.
• World-building, science, scriptwriting, narrative, plot, dialog and character design.
• Consulted on the QB TV show.
• Chosen by Sam Lake to pen the 150,000-word parallel timeline tie-in novel.

Writer, Small Giant
Empires & Puzzles, 2019–2020

• Plotted and wrote seasons 3 and 4.
• Assisted worldbuilding and character design on Asgard and Hollow Earth.
• Created impactful narrative, characters and dialog with minimal bandwidth to notable fan response…

Writer, Next Games
The Walking Dead: No Man’s Land, 2015–2019

• (TWD:NML) Achieved fast, high-quality turnaround on Episodes 10 onward, having been requested by the producer to replace the previous AMC-approved writer
• (TWD:NML) Hit tone with 100% consistency on plotting, script and narrative design, receiving few notes from AMC’s quality controllers.

Published Works

  • Quantum Break: Zero State (Tor)

    • 4.5 stars on Amazon.
    • Positive fan reaction.
    • Interest from a name director/producer.

  • The Music of Razors (Penguin – Australia, Random House/Del Rey – US)

    • Neil Gaiman endorsed.
    • Declared the best debut novel of the year by Locus.
    • Voted the #3 best debut novel by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling in Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror
    • Shortlisted in Year’s Best Fantasy and Science Fiction.
    • Nominated for the Aurealis Award in a record-breaking three categories: horror, fantasy and young adult.
    • Interest from a major studio.

  • Nicholas and the Chronoporter (Penguin) (Written as Rowley Monkfish)

    • Nominated for Australian Children’s Book of the Year