List of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze staff

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.

Executive Producer

 * Michael Kelbaugh

Production Director

 * Ryan Harris

Contract Production

 * Pete Nielsen
 * Nick Shaw

Creative Director

 * Vince Joly

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

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 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

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

Senior Technical Art

 * Rob Kovach

Technical Art

 * Rebecca Flannery

Special Thanks

 * Chris Voellmann

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

Team Lead

 * Richard Garcia

Coordination

 * Owen Justice

Game Design Chief

 * John Schneider

Design

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

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 Lead

 * Dave Broske

Engineering

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

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

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