Zero State

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I need to confess something. I’ve always struggled to see the point of a straightforward game novelization. If the experience is already there as intended, why transcribe it? There’s more than fifty thousand words of text-based discoverable optional story content in Quantum Break, half a novel in itself, and that’s without counting the actual performed screenplay. If the player wants a novelization of the story in the game, it’s waiting there to be read as they play. Instead, I was interested in creating a work of art that was bold, a bit different, and that would stand on its own two feet.

Cam Rogers was part of the team who crafted Quantum Break. The other members of the team were Mikko Rautalahti, Tyler Smith, and myself. As a writer, Cam is a force of nature. The sheer rapid-fire enthusiasm he brings to the table was obvious to us from the very first Skype call we had with him in the spring of 2012. Cam is fast; the way his mind works is staggering. He knows how stories work, and on top of that the man is a walking encyclopedia. When the idea of a novelization for Quantum Break came up in the early summer of 2015, I immediately thought of Cam, who at that point had already left Remedy to work on other projects. Cam had intimate knowledge of the Quantum Break universe, in a way no outside writer could. I called him, and he was interested.

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