List of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze staff

This is a list of the staff involved with the game Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze.

Retro Studios staff

Executive Producer

• Michael Kelbaugh

Production Director

• Ryan Harris

Contract Production

• Pete Nielsen
• Nick Shaw

Creative Director

• Vince Joly

Design

Lead Design

• Stephen Dupree

Senior Design

• Russell O'Henly
• Bill Vandervoort

Design

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

Contract Design

• Brandon Strong
• Ethan Swith
• Patrick Krefting

Special Thanks

• Tom Ivey

Environment Art

Art Lead

• Ryan Powell

Principal Art

• Elben Schafers

Senior Art

• Teague Schultz

Art

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

Contract Art

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

Special Thanks

• Jay Epperson
• Toph Gorham

Character Art & Animation

Character Art & Animation Lead

• Will Bate

Character Art

Senior Art

• Gray Ginther
• Chuck Crist

Art

• Adam Schuman
• Thomas Robins

Contract Art

• Crystel Land

Special Thanks

• Quinn Smith

Animation

Senior Animation

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

Technical Animation

• Chris Torres

Animation

• Carlos Mendieta
• Raphael Perkins
• Mookie Weisbrod

Contract Animation

• Rick Blankenship
• Dominic Pallotta
• Kyle Ruegg

Contract Technical Animation

• Charles Brahmawong

Engineering

Vice President of Engineering & Technology

• Tim Little

Lead Engineering

• Aaron Walker

Senior Engineering

• Jim Gage
• Alex Quinones

Engineering

• 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

• John Talley (Mock Science)
• Jason Spafford

Special Thanks

• Rhys Lewis
• Nate Nordfelt

Technical Art

Senior Technical Art

• Rob Kovach

Technical Art

• Rebecca Flannery

Special Thanks

• Chris Voellmann

Audio

Audio Supervisor

• Scott Petersen

Music

• David Wise

Contract Audio

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

Operations

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

Contract Testing

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

Monster Games, Inc. staff

Team Lead

• Richard Garcia

Coordination

• Owen Justice

Design

Game Design Chief

• John Schneider

Design

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

Art

Art Leads

• Josh Defries
• Mitch Ernst

Art

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

Engineering

Engineering Lead

• Dave Broske

Engineering

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

Nintendo of America staff

Project Development

• Todd Buechele
• Theresa Apolinario

Business Development

• Mike Fukuda
• Tom Prata
• Tim Bechtel

NOA Localization

• Nate Bihldorff
• Ceser Perez
• Thaddee Wiseur

NOA Product Testing

• 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

• Gregg Brown

Special Thanks

• Howard Lincoln
• Jacqualee Story
• Mike Nichols
• Mindy Bannan
• Jill Whitney

Nintendo staff

Executive Producer

• Satoru Iwata

General Producer

• Shinya Takahashi

Producer

• Kensuke Tanabe

Supervisor

• Shigeru Miyamoto

Assistant Producer

• Risa Tabata

Coordination

• Kaori Miyachi

Design/Coordination Support

• Toshihiko Okamoto

Music Supervisor

• Kenji Yamamoto

Music/Voice Recording

• Daisuke Matsuoka
• Minako Hamano
• Shinji Ushiroda
• Riyu Tamura

Character Voice

• Takashi Nagasako as Donkey Kong and Cranky Kong
• Katsumi Suzuki as Diddy Kong
• Kaoru Sasashi as Dixie Kong
• Toshihide Tsuchiya as Funky Kong

Cinematics Supervisors

• Tomoe Aratani
• Takumi Kawagoe

Character Supervisors

• Chiaki Aida
• Tsuyoshi Watanabe

Illustration

• Takumi Wada

Illustration Supervisor

• Yusuke Nakano

Artwork

• Yoshitomo Kitamura
• Ryo Koizumi

Manual Editing

• Kiyomi Itani
• Aki Sakurai

UI Design Supervisors

• Miyako Takayama
• Ryo Kataoka
• Satomi Tateishi

Technical Support

• Takehiro Oyama
• Shotaro Iwanaga
• Yoshito Yasuda

Testing

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

• Mario Club Co., Ltd.
• Digital Hearts Co., Ltd.

Special Thanks

• Keisuke Terasaki
• Norihito Ito
• Polyassets United Inc