10 Facts About Chris Remo

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

Chris Remo composed the music for Thirty Flights of Loving, Gone Home, Spacebase DF-9 and Firewatch.

Chris Remo co-wrote The Cave with Ron Gilbert at Double Fine Productions.

Chris Remo began his career as a video game journalist, writing for Adventure Gamers.

Chris Remo co-founded Idle Thumbs, a video game culture website, with colleagues from Adventure Gamers and The International House of Mojo in 2004.

Chris Remo 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.

In early 2012, Chris 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.

Chris Remo 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.

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

In 2021, Chris 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.