List of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze staff

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This is a list of the staff involved with the game Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. For a list of staff who worked on the Nintendo Switch version, see here.

Retro Studios staff[edit]

Executive Producer[edit]

Production Director[edit]

  • Ryan Harris

Contract Production[edit]

  • Pete Nielsen
  • Nick Shaw

Creative Director[edit]

Design[edit]

Lead Design[edit]

Senior Design[edit]

  • Russell O'Henly
  • Bill Vandervoort

Design[edit]

  • Rhett Baldwin
  • Jonathan Delange
  • Jay Fuller
  • Nestor Hernandez
  • Shane Lewis
  • Brandon Salinas
  • Andy Schwalenberg
  • Paul Schwanz
  • Jessica Spence

Contract Design[edit]

  • Brandon Strong
  • Ethan Swith
  • Patrick Krefting

Special Thanks[edit]

  • Tom Ivey

Environment Art[edit]

Art Lead[edit]

  • Ryan Powell

Principal Art[edit]

  • Elben Schafers

Senior Art[edit]

  • Teague Schultz

Art[edit]

  • Ted Anderson
  • Sean Horton
  • Reed Ketcham
  • Eric Kozlowsky
  • Russell Lingo
  • Matt Manchester
  • Amanda Rotella
  • Sylvia Rowland
  • Brad Taylor

Contract Art[edit]

  • Greg Kopina
  • Kenneth Kozan
  • Tim Reed
  • Allison Theus

Special Thanks[edit]

  • Jay Epperson
  • Toph Gorham

Character Art & Animation[edit]

Character Art & Animation Lead[edit]

  • Will Bate

Character Art[edit]

Senior Art
  • Gray Ginther
  • Chuck Crist

Art[edit]

  • Adam Schuman
  • Thomas Robins

Contract Art[edit]

  • Crystel Land

Special Thanks[edit]

  • Quinn Smith

Animation[edit]

Senior Animation
  • Derek Bonikowski
  • Dax Pallotta
  • Stephen "Zaf" Zafros

Technical Animation[edit]

  • Chris Torres

Animation[edit]

  • Carlos Mendieta
  • Raphael Perkins
  • Mookie Weisbrod

Contract Animation[edit]

  • Rick Blankenship
  • Dominic Pallotta
  • Kyle Ruegg

Contract Technical Animation[edit]

  • Charles Brahmawong

Engineering[edit]

Vice President of Engineering & Technology[edit]

  • Tim Little

Lead Engineering[edit]

  • Aaron Walker

Senior Engineering[edit]

  • Jim Gage
  • Alex Quinones

Engineering[edit]

  • Tony Bernardin
  • Ryan Cornelius
  • Sam Grantham
  • Jose Guerra
  • Andy Hanson
  • Dan Higdon
  • Michael Kelley
  • Frank Maddin
  • Akintunde Omitowoju
  • Andrew Orlando
  • Matt Peterson
  • Eric Rehmeyer
  • Jim Richmond
  • Cale Scholl
  • John Sheblak
  • Jesse Spears

Contract Engineering[edit]

  • John Talley (Mock Science)
  • Jason Spafford

Special Thanks[edit]

  • Rhys Lewis
  • Nate Nordfelt

Technical Art[edit]

Senior Technical Art[edit]

  • Rob Kovach

Technical Art[edit]

  • Rebecca Flannery

Special Thanks[edit]

  • Chris Voellmann

Audio[edit]

Audio Supervisor[edit]

  • Scott Petersen

Music[edit]

  • David Wise
  • Peter Nielsen (Sax Solo in the Staff Credits music, uncredited)[1]

Mixing (uncredited)[edit]

  • David Clynick[2]

Contract Audio[edit]

  • Chris Carroll
  • Kenneth Bassham
  • Bobby Arlauskas
  • Clark Crawford
  • Matt Piersall
  • Matthew Thies
  • Gl33k, LLC

Operations[edit]

  • Kellie Prinz Johnson
  • Al Artus
  • Faith Casper
  • Akiko Laban
  • Mika Sato
  • George Thomas
  • Ethan McDonald

Contract Testing[edit]

  • Brandon Crocker
  • Aaron Hunter
  • Sammy Palazzolo
  • Adam Webber

Monster Games, Inc. staff[edit]

Team Lead[edit]

  • Richard Garcia

Coordination[edit]

  • Owen Justice

Design[edit]

Game Design Chief[edit]

  • John Schneider

Design[edit]

  • Walter "CJ" Boswell
  • Caryn Krakauer
  • Todd Legare
  • Isaac Turner

Art[edit]

Art Leads[edit]

  • Josh Defries
  • Mitch Ernst

Art[edit]

  • Hugh Ackerman
  • Evan Brown
  • Ryan Glovka
  • Venkata Kishore Goli
  • Troy Harder
  • Chad Jasper
  • Eli Libson
  • Brian McCabe
  • Preston Palmer
  • Mike Reider

Engineering[edit]

Engineering Lead[edit]

  • Dave Broske

Engineering[edit]

  • Scott Haag
  • Sam Johnston
  • Mark McKay
  • Evan Rattner
  • Mike Roska

Nintendo of America staff[edit]

Project Development[edit]

  • Todd Buechele
  • Theresa Apolinario

Business Development[edit]

  • Mike Fukuda
  • Tom Prata
  • Tim Bechtel

NOA Localization[edit]

NOA Product Testing[edit]

  • Masayasu Nakata
  • Randy Shoemake
  • Seth Hanser
  • Eric Bush
  • Sean Egan
  • Q Dequina
  • Zac Evans
  • Ryan Dean
  • Rick Jackson
  • NOA Product Testing Team

Off-site Testing Support[edit]

  • Gregg Brown

Special Thanks[edit]

Nintendo staff[edit]

Executive Producer[edit]

General Producer[edit]

  • Shinya Takahashi

Producer[edit]

Supervisor[edit]

Assistant Producer[edit]

Coordination[edit]

  • Kaori Miyachi

Design/Coordination Support[edit]

  • Toshihiko Okamoto

Music Supervisor[edit]

Music/Voice Recording[edit]

Character Voice[edit]

Cinematics Supervisors[edit]

Character Supervisors[edit]

  • Chiaki Aida
  • Tsuyoshi Watanabe

Illustration[edit]

  • Takumi Wada

Illustration Supervisor[edit]

  • Yusuke Nakano

Artwork[edit]

  • Yoshitomo Kitamura
  • Ryo Koizumi

Manual Editing[edit]

  • Kiyomi Itani
  • Aki Sakurai

UI Design Supervisors[edit]

  • Miyako Takayama
  • Ryo Kataoka
  • Satomi Tateishi

Technical Support[edit]

  • Takehiro Oyama
  • Shotaro Iwanaga
  • Yoshito Yasuda

Testing[edit]

  • Naoki Takami
  • Koichiro Hirano
  • Takeshi Tamura
  • Akiko Ohashi

Special Thanks[edit]

  • Keisuke Terasaki
  • Norihito Ito
  • Polyassets United Inc

References[edit]

  1. ^ "The fabulous Sax Solo is performed by the incredibly talented Peter Nielsen from Austin, Texas. I played some of the other sax parts, along with the EWI solos. ( EWI: AKAI Electronic Wind Instrument ).", comment by David Wise under Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze Soundtrack - Staff Credits/ Feat. Peter Nielsen & David Wise.YouTube. Retrieved December 21, 2023.
  2. ^ David Clynick's personal website. Retrieved January 25, 2019.