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Chris Remo | |
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| Born | (1984-09-10)September 10, 1984 (age 40) |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Video game designer, composer,podcaster, writer |
Chris Remo is an Americanvideo game designer,composer, writer, podcaster, and formerjournalist.
As a journalist, he cofounded the originalIdle Thumbs website as well as its flagship podcast, and served as Editor-in-Chief ofShacknews and Editor at Large forGamasutra.
He composed the music forThirty Flights of Loving,Gone Home,Spacebase DF-9 andFirewatch. He co-wroteThe Cave withRon Gilbert atDouble Fine Productions. In early 2014, he left Double Fine to join his Idle Thumbs co-hostsJake Rodkin andSean Vanaman atCampo Santo,[1] where he contributed to the studio's narrative adventure gameFirewatch as a game and story designer, composer, and audio director.[2]
Chris Remo began his career as a video game journalist, writing forAdventure Gamers. He co-foundedIdle Thumbs, avideo game culture website, with colleagues from Adventure Gamers andThe International House of Mojo in 2004.[3] As a professional journalist, he was Editor-in-Chief of Shacknews and later Gamasutra, becoming Editor at Large.[3] After Idle Thumbs went dark in 2007, Remo revived it as a podcast in late 2008 with other Thumbs writers Nick Breckon (then ofShacknews) andJake Rodkin (then ofTelltale Games).[4] While podcasting for Idle Thumbs, he composed and performed "Space Asshole", a satirical song about the protagonist ofRed Faction: Guerrilla, whichwent viral.[5]
He left his position at Gamasutra in 2010 to work as a community manager and producer forBoston-basedIrrational Games, ending the first run of the Idle Thumbs podcast at the same time. The show's then-final episode was recorded live at the 2010 Penny Arcade Expo.[6]
In early 2012, Remo returned to San Francisco to start acrowdfunded campaign onKickstarter to revive the Idle Thumbs podcast with then-co-hosts Rodkin andSean Vanaman.[7] As part of the Kickstarter campaign, Remo composed the soundtrack forBlendo Games'Thirty Flights of Loving, a video game that would be released to backers of the campaign.[8][9][10]
He also took a job in a multi-faceted role atDouble Fine Productions, where he contributed to various games, including as a composer and game designer forSpacebase DF-9, anAmnesia Fortnight project, and as co-writer ofThe Cave alongsideRon Gilbert.[11]
Remo composed the soundtrack toGone Home, a game written by former Idle Thumbs co-host Steve Gaynor,[12] and co-wroteRogue One: X-Wing VR Mission forStar Wars Battlefront, developed by Criterion Games.
As a member of independent game studioCampo Santo, Remo was a game and story designer, composer, and audio director of theBAFTA-winning narrative adventureFirewatch, and has spoken about the game’s design at numerous game development conferences around the world.[13][14]
In 2018, Campo Santo was acquired by Seattle-area game developerValve.[15]
In 2021, Remo started uploading daily vlogs of himself solvingThe New York Times crossword on his personal YouTube channel, in a series titled The Daily Solve.[16]
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