Chris Remo

Chris Remo is an American video game designer, composer, writer, podcaster, YouTuber 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, where he contributed to the studio's narrative adventure game Firewatch as a game and story designer, composer, and audio director. Since 2021, Remo has posted daily videos to his YouTube channel featuring gameplay of New York Times games, such as the Crossword, Wordle, and Connections.