List of Donkey Kong Country Returns staff

This is a list of the staff involved with the game Donkey Kong Country Returns.

Executive Producer

 * Michael Kelbaugh

Senior Development Director

 * Bryan Walker

Production Manager

 * Ryan Harris

Production Coordination

 * Shane Lewis

Senior Design

 * Kynan Pearson
 * Mike Wikan
 * Tom Ivey

Design

 * Andy Schwalenberg
 * Bill Vandervoort
 * Brandon Salinas
 * Jay Fuller
 * Russell O'Henly

Contract Design

 * Jonathan Delange
 * Stephen Dupree

Art Director

 * Vince Joly

Art Lead

 * Ryan Powell

Principal Art

 * Elben Schafers

Technical Art

 * Chris Voellmann

Senior Art

 * Chuck Crist
 * Luis Ramirez

Art

 * Amanda Rotella
 * Jay Epperson
 * Matt Manchester
 * Quinn Smith
 * Sean Horton
 * Ted Anderson
 * Teague Schultz
 * Thomas Robins
 * Russell Lingo

Contract Art

 * Mark Brady
 * Reed Ketcham
 * Mike Witt

Senior Animation

 * Dax Pallotta
 * Derek Bonikowski
 * Will Bate

Animation

 * Carlos Mendieta
 * Raphael Perkins
 * Stephen Zafros

Contract Animation

 * Chris Torres
 * Nick McBride

Additional Thanks

 * Danny Richardson
 * Sammy Hall

Engineering Director

 * Tim Little

Senior Engineering

 * Aaron Walker
 * Alex Quinones
 * Jim Gage
 * Mike Miller

Engineering

 * Akintunde Omitowoju
 * Andy Hanson
 * Dan Higdon
 * Eric Rehmeyer
 * Frank Maddin
 * Jesse Spears
 * John Sheblak
 * Jose Guerra
 * Rhys Lewis
 * Ryan Cornelius

Audio Supervisor

 * Scott Petersen

Contract Sound Design

 * Bobby Arlauskas
 * Frank Bry
 * GL33k, LLC

Contract Sound Scripting

 * Monty Goulet

Operations

 * Al Artus
 * Ethan McDonald
 * Faith Casper
 * George Thomas
 * Kellie Prinz Johnson

Translation & Administration

 * Akiko Furukawa-Laban

General Producer

 * Shinya Takahashi

Producer

 * Kensuke Tanabe

Supervisor

 * Shigeru Miyamoto

Assistant Producer

 * Risa Tabata

Coordination

 * Yuji Ichijo
 * Kaori Miyachi

Coordination Support

 * Kiyohiko Ando
 * Atsuto Yagi

Music Supervisor

 * Kenji Yamamoto

Music

 * Minako Hamano
 * Masaru Tajima
 * Shinji Ushiroda
 * Daisuke Matsuoka

Storyboards

 * Naoki Mori
 * Tomoe Aratani

Illustration/Conceptual Art Support

 * Shigehisa Nakaue

Character Supervisors

 * Tsuyoshi Watanabe
 * Yusuke Nakano

Character Voices

 * Takashi Nagasako (Donkey Kong and Cranky Kong)
 * Katsumi Suzuki (Diddy Kong)
 * Brina Palencia (Blue Biter)

Artwork

 * Yoshitomo Kitamura
 * Yasuo Inoue

Technical Support

 * Yoshito Yasuda
 * Shingo Okamoto
 * Tomohiro Umeda

Special Thanks

 * Keisuke Terasaki
 * Akiya Sakamoto
 * Toshihiko Okamoto
 * Takumi Kawagoe
 * Shintaro Kashiwagi
 * Hiroki Hirano
 * Kanae Dohta
 * Takashi Tezuka
 * Hiroyuki Kimura
 * Shigeyuki Asuke
 * Tsutomu Kaneshige
 * Yoshiaki Koizumi
 * Mahito Yokota
 * Polyassets United Inc
 * Mario Club Co., Ltd.

Business Development

 * Mike Fukuda

Project Development

 * Tom Prata
 * Tim Bechtel

Project Development/NOA Coordination

 * Todd Buechele

NOA Localization

 * Nate Bihldorff
 * Eric M. Smith
 * Anne-Marie Laperriere
 * Cesar Perez

NOA Design

 * Ross Hirai
 * Hitomi Ross

NOA Product Testing

 * Sean Egan
 * Robert Jahn
 * Kathy Huguenard
 * Teresa Lillygren
 * Nicko Gonzalez de Santiago
 * Sara Hoad
 * Stephane Arlot
 * Jeffrey Storbo

Special Thanks

 * Reggie Fils-Aime
 * Jacqualee Story
 * Jill Whitney
 * Nicola Wright
 * Mindy Bannan
 * Jason Mahaffa
 * Gregg Brown
 * Peter Nielsen
 * Ryan Pikarski
 * Seyla Keo

Special Thanks (Nintendo of Europe)

 * Andy Fey
 * Martin Weers
 * Palma Sánchez de Moya Rodríguez
 * Arielle Walter
 * Gurvan Le Guen
 * Alesánder Luis Valero Fernández
 * Ariel Del Rio de Angelis

Executive Producer

 * Satoru Iwata