List of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze staff

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

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

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

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 - Donkey Kong, Cranky Kong
 * Katsumi Suzuki - Diddy Kong
 * Kaoru Sasashima - Dixie Kong
 * Toshihide Tsuchiya - 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