Chris Remo Explained

Chris Remo
Birth Date:10 September 1984
Birth Place:San Francisco, California
Occupation:Video game designer, composer, podcaster, writer
Nationality:American

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.

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 narrative adventure game Firewatch as a game and story designer, composer, and audio director.

Career

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.[2] As a professional journalist, he was Editor-in-Chief of Shacknews and later Gamasutra, becoming Editor at Large.[2] 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).[3] While podcasting for Idle Thumbs, he composed and performed "Space Asshole", a satirical song about the protagonist of , which went viral.[4]

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.[5]

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.[6] 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.[7] [8] [9]

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.[10]

Remo composed the soundtrack to Gone Home, a game written by former Idle Thumbs co-host Steve Gaynor,[11] 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.

In 2018, Campo Santo was acquired by Seattle-area game developer Valve.[12]

In 2021, Remo started uploading daily vlogs of himself solving The New York Times crossword on his personal YouTube channel, in a series titled The Daily Solve.[13]

Works

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Idle Thumbs 144. 6 February 2014.
  2. Web site: Chris Remo Author Biography . Gamasutra . March 9, 2013.
  3. Web site: Tabacco, Doug . About Us . Idle Thumbs . March 8, 2012.
  4. Web site: Good, Owen . Is Your Population Demoralized? Watch "Space A-hole" . Kotaku . October 27, 2009 . March 9, 2013.
  5. Web site: Idle Thumbs . Idle Thumbs Live at PAX Prime 2010 – Burnin' Down the Wolfman . Vimeo . March 21, 2011 . July 27, 2012.
  6. Web site: Caoili, Eric . Kickstarter drive offers exclusive game from Atom Zombie Smasher dev . Gamasutra . February 28, 2012 . March 8, 2012.
  7. Web site: Hinkle, David . Idle Thumbs Kickstarter includes exclusive game, neat artwork . Joystiq . February 20, 2012 . March 8, 2012.
  8. Web site: Hamilton, Kirk . Indie Darling Gravity Bone Gets a Sequel . Kotaku.com . February 28, 2012 . March 8, 2012.
  9. Web site: Smith, Graham . Thirty Flights of Loving tells a better story in 13 minutes than most games do in 13 hours . PC Gamer . March 6, 2012 . March 8, 2012.
  10. Web site: Caravella, Vinny . Quick Look EX: The Cave . Giant Bomb . January 21, 2013 . March 9, 2013.
  11. Web site: Gaynor, Steve . Status Update: IGF, here we come! . The Fullbright Company . October 23, 2012 . March 9, 2013.
  12. Web site: Alexander. Julia. 2018-04-21. Valve acquires Firewatch developer, Campo Santo. 2021-11-19. Polygon. en-US.
  13. Web site: Chris Remo - YouTube. 2021-11-19. www.youtube.com.
  14. Web site: Schafer, Tim . Double Fine Productions . April 29, 2004 . April 1, 2013 . SHIFTLESS LONERS, DRIFTERS TORTURED at DF .
  15. Web site: Idle Thumbs . April 3, 2012 . April 1, 2013 . Unbearable OHTLTSWALTB trailer .
  16. Web site: Pocket Gamer . September 9, 2013 . October 20, 2013 . Destroy all the Erflings in veteran BioShock dev's upcoming Captain Bubblenaut . Priestman, Chris.
  17. Web site: Bandcamp . October 15, 2013 . October 20, 2013 . Spacebase DF-9 Original Soundtrack .
  18. Web site: Gamasutra . December 3, 2015 . December 9, 2015 . Interactive fiction meets arcade racer: Designing Wheels of Aurelia . Wawro, Alex.
  19. Web site: Twitter . December 7, 2016 . December 11, 2016 . And incredible working with writers @chrisremo and @nickbreckon to bring our characters to life. <3. Seamster, Jeff.
  20. Web site: July 19, 2020. Italian Indie Studio Santa Ragione is partnering with The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild to publish 'Saturnalia', a Sardinian survival horror adventure.. 2020-07-22. Gamasutra. en.

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