Chris Remo is an American video game designer, composer, writer, podcaster, and former journalist.

As a journalist, he cofounded the original Idle Thumbs website as well as its flagship podcast, and served as Editor-in-Chief of Shacknews and Editor at Large for Gamasutra.

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He composed the music for Thirty Flights of Loving, Gone Home, Spacebase DF-9 and Firewatch. He co-wrote The Cave with Ron Gilbert at Double Fine Productions. In early 2014, he left Double Fine to join his Idle Thumbs co-hosts Jake Rodkin and Sean Vanaman at Campo Santo,^[1] where he contributed to the studio's acclaimed narrative adventure game Firewatch as a game and story designer, composer, and audio director.^[2]

Career[edit]

Chris Remo began his career as a video game journalist, writing for Adventure Gamers. He co-founded Idle Thumbs, a video game culture website, with colleagues from Adventure Gamers and The 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 of Shacknews) and Jake Rodkin (then of Telltale Games).^[4] While podcasting for Idle Thumbs, he composed and performed 'Space Asshole', a satirical song about the protagonist of Red Faction: Guerrilla, which went viral.^[5]

He left his position at Gamasutra in 2010 to work as a community manager and producer for Boston-based Irrational 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 a crowdfunded campaign on Kickstarter to revive the Idle Thumbs podcast with then-co-hosts Rodkin and Sean Vanaman.^[7] As part of the Kickstarter campaign, Remo composed the soundtrack for Blendo 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 at Double Fine Productions, where he contributed to various games, including as a composer and game designer for Spacebase DF-9, an Amnesia Fortnight project, and as co-writer of The Cave alongside Ron Gilbert.^[11]

Remo composed the soundtrack to Gone Home, a game written by former Idle Thumbs co-host Steve Gaynor,^[12] and co-wrote Rogue One: X-Wing VR Mission for Star Wars Battlefront, developed by Criterion Games.

As a member of independent game studio Campo Santo, Remo was a game and story designer, composer, and audio director of the BAFTA-winning narrative adventure Firewatch, and has spoken about the game’s design at numerous game development conferences around the world.

Steam Firewatch

In 2018, Campo Santo was acquired by Seattle-area game developer Valve.

Firewatch Original Soundtrack Band

Works[edit]

• 2005 Psychonauts, tester^[13] (Double Fine Productions)
• 2009 Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter Wii, composer (Planet Moon Studios)
• 2012 Unbearable: Or How They Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bear, composer, writer (What Would Molydeux?)^[14]
• 2012 Thirty Flights of Loving, composer (Blendo Games)
• 2012 Spacebase DF-9 composer, designer (Double Fine Productions)
• 2013 The Cave, co-writer (Double Fine Productions)
• 2013 Gone Home, composer (The Fullbright Company)
• 2013 Captain Bubblenaut, composer (Pixelsaurus Games)^[15]
• 2013 Spacebase DF-9, composer (Double Fine Productions)^[16]
• 2015 Wheels of Aurelia, dialogue support (Santa Ragione)^[17]
• 2016 Firewatch, game and story designer, composer, audio director (Campo Santo)^[2]
• 2016 Star Wars Battlefront – Rogue One: X-Wing VR Mission, writer (Criterion Games)^[18]
• 2020 Half-Life: Alyx (Valve)
• 2020 Saturnalia, writer (Santa Ragione)^[19]
• TBA In the Valley of Gods, game and story designer, composer (Valve)

Firewatch Ost

References[edit]

1. ^'Idle Thumbs 144'. Retrieved February 6, 2014.
2. ^ ^abMr Moon (February 9, 2016), Firewatch ending credits, retrieved September 1, 2017
3. ^ ^ab'Chris Remo Author Biography'. Gamasutra. Retrieved March 9, 2013.
4. ^Tabacco, Doug. 'About Us'. Idle Thumbs. Retrieved March 8, 2012.
5. ^Good, Owen (October 27, 2009). 'Is Your Population Demoralized? Watch 'Space A-hole''. Kotaku. Retrieved March 9, 2013.
6. ^Idle Thumbs (March 21, 2011). 'Idle Thumbs Live at PAX Prime 2010 – Burnin' Down the Wolfman'. Vimeo. Retrieved July 27, 2012.
7. ^Caoili, Eric (February 28, 2012). 'Kickstarter drive offers exclusive game from Atom Zombie Smasher dev'. Gamasutra. Retrieved March 8, 2012.
8. ^Hinkle, David (February 20, 2012). 'Idle Thumbs Kickstarter includes exclusive game, neat artwork'. Joystiq. Retrieved March 8, 2012.
9. ^Hamilton, Kirk (February 28, 2012). 'Indie Darling Gravity Bone Gets a Sequel'. Kotaku.com. Retrieved March 8, 2012.
10. ^Smith, Graham (March 6, 2012). 'Thirty Flights of Loving tells a better story in 13 minutes than most games do in 13 hours'. PC Gamer. Retrieved March 8, 2012.
11. ^Caravella, Vinny (January 21, 2013). 'Quick Look EX: The Cave'. Giant Bomb. Retrieved March 9, 2013.
12. ^Gaynor, Steve (October 23, 2012). 'Status Update: IGF, here we come!'. The Fullbright Company. Retrieved March 9, 2013.
13. ^Schafer, Tim (April 29, 2004). 'SHIFTLESS LONERS, DRIFTERS TORTURED at DF'. Double Fine Productions. Retrieved April 1, 2013.
14. ^'Unbearable OHTLTSWALTB trailer'. Idle Thumbs. April 3, 2012. Retrieved April 1, 2013.
15. ^Priestman, Chris (September 9, 2013). 'Destroy all the Erflings in veteran BioShock dev's upcoming Captain Bubblenaut'. Pocket Gamer. Retrieved October 20, 2013.
16. ^'Spacebase DF-9 Original Soundtrack'. Bandcamp. October 15, 2013. Retrieved October 20, 2013.
17. ^Wawro, Alex (December 3, 2015). 'Interactive fiction meets arcade racer: Designing Wheels of Aurelia'. Gamasutra. Retrieved December 9, 2015.
18. ^Seamster, Jeff (December 7, 2016). 'And incredible working with writers @chrisremo and @nickbreckon to bring our characters to life. <3'. Twitter. Retrieved December 11, 2016.
19. ^'Italian Indie Studio Santa Ragione is partnering with The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild to publish 'Saturnalia', a Sardinian survival horror adventure'. Gamasutra. July 19, 2020. Retrieved July 22, 2020.

External links[edit]

• Chris Remo at MobyGames