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.
Retro Studios staffEdit
Executive ProducerEdit
Production DirectorEdit
- Ryan Harris
Contract ProductionEdit
- Pete Nielsen
- Nick Shaw
Creative DirectorEdit
DesignEdit
Lead DesignEdit
Senior DesignEdit
- Russell O'Henly
- Bill Vandervoort
DesignEdit
- Rhett Baldwin
- Jonathan Delange
- Jay Fuller
- Nestor Hernandez
- Shane Lewis
- Brandon Salinas
- Andy Schwalenberg
- Paul Schwanz
- Jessica Spence
Contract DesignEdit
- Brandon Strong
- Ethan Swith
- Patrick Krefting
Special ThanksEdit
- Tom Ivey
Environment ArtEdit
Art LeadEdit
- Ryan Powell
Principal ArtEdit
- Elben Schafers
Senior ArtEdit
- Teague Schultz
ArtEdit
- Ted Anderson
- Sean Horton
- Reed Ketcham
- Eric Kozlowsky
- Russell Lingo
- Matt Manchester
- Amanda Rotella
- Sylvia Rowland
- Brad Taylor
Contract ArtEdit
- Greg Kopina
- Kenneth Kozan
- Tim Reed
- Allison Theus
Special ThanksEdit
- Jay Epperson
- Toph Gorham
Character Art & AnimationEdit
Character Art & Animation LeadEdit
- Will Bate
Character ArtEdit
- Senior Art
- Gray Ginther
- Chuck Crist
ArtEdit
- Adam Schuman
- Thomas Robins
Contract ArtEdit
- Crystel Land
Special ThanksEdit
- Quinn Smith
AnimationEdit
- Senior Animation
- Derek Bonikowski
- Dax Pallotta
- Stephen "Zaf" Zafros
Technical AnimationEdit
- Chris Torres
AnimationEdit
- Carlos Mendieta
- Raphael Perkins
- Mookie Weisbrod
Contract AnimationEdit
- Rick Blankenship
- Dominic Pallotta
- Kyle Ruegg
Contract Technical AnimationEdit
- Charles Brahmawong
EngineeringEdit
Vice President of Engineering & TechnologyEdit
- Tim Little
Lead EngineeringEdit
- Aaron Walker
Senior EngineeringEdit
- Jim Gage
- Alex Quinones
EngineeringEdit
- 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 EngineeringEdit
- John Talley (Mock Science)
- Jason Spafford
Special ThanksEdit
- Rhys Lewis
- Nate Nordfelt
Technical ArtEdit
Senior Technical ArtEdit
- Rob Kovach
Technical ArtEdit
- Rebecca Flannery
Special ThanksEdit
- Chris Voellmann
AudioEdit
Audio SupervisorEdit
- Scott Petersen
MusicEdit
- David Wise
- Peter Nielsen (Sax Solo in the Staff Credits music, uncredited)[1]
Mixing (uncredited)Edit
- David Clynick[2]
Contract AudioEdit
- Chris Carroll
- Kenneth Bassham
- Bobby Arlauskas
- Clark Crawford
- Matt Piersall
- Matthew Thies
- Gl33k, LLC
OperationsEdit
- Kellie Prinz Johnson
- Al Artus
- Faith Casper
- Akiko Laban
- Mika Sato
- George Thomas
- Ethan McDonald
Contract TestingEdit
- Brandon Crocker
- Aaron Hunter
- Sammy Palazzolo
- Adam Webber
Monster Games, Inc. staffEdit
Team LeadEdit
- Richard Garcia
CoordinationEdit
- Owen Justice
DesignEdit
Game Design ChiefEdit
- John Schneider
DesignEdit
- Walter "CJ" Boswell
- Caryn Krakauer
- Todd Legare
- Isaac Turner
ArtEdit
Art LeadsEdit
- Josh Defries
- Mitch Ernst
ArtEdit
- Hugh Ackerman
- Evan Brown
- Ryan Glovka
- Venkata Kishore Goli
- Troy Harder
- Chad Jasper
- Eli Libson
- Brian McCabe
- Preston Palmer
- Mike Reider
EngineeringEdit
Engineering LeadEdit
- Dave Broske
EngineeringEdit
- Scott Haag
- Sam Johnston
- Mark McKay
- Evan Rattner
- Mike Roska
Nintendo of America staffEdit
Project DevelopmentEdit
- Todd Buechele
- Theresa Apolinario
Business DevelopmentEdit
- Mike Fukuda
- Tom Prata
- Tim Bechtel
NOA LocalizationEdit
- Nate Bihldorff
- Ceser Perez
- Thaddee Wiseur
NOA Product TestingEdit
- 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 SupportEdit
- Gregg Brown
Special ThanksEdit
- Howard Lincoln
- Jacqualee Story
- Mike Nichols
- Mindy Bannan
- Jill Whitney
Nintendo staffEdit
Executive ProducerEdit
General ProducerEdit
- Shinya Takahashi
ProducerEdit
SupervisorEdit
Assistant ProducerEdit
CoordinationEdit
- Kaori Miyachi
Design/Coordination SupportEdit
- Toshihiko Okamoto
Music SupervisorEdit
Music/Voice RecordingEdit
- Daisuke Matsuoka
- Minako Hamano
- Shinji Ushiroda
- Riyu Tamura
Character VoiceEdit
- Takashi Nagasako as Donkey Kong and Cranky Kong
- Katsumi Suzuki as Diddy Kong
- Kaoru Sasashi as Dixie Kong
- Toshihide Tsuchiya as Funky Kong
Cinematics SupervisorsEdit
- Tomoe Aratani
- Takumi Kawagoe
Character SupervisorsEdit
- Chiaki Aida
- Tsuyoshi Watanabe
IllustrationEdit
- Takumi Wada
Illustration SupervisorEdit
- Yusuke Nakano
ArtworkEdit
- Yoshitomo Kitamura
- Ryo Koizumi
Manual EditingEdit
- Kiyomi Itani
- Aki Sakurai
UI Design SupervisorsEdit
- Miyako Takayama
- Ryo Kataoka
- Satomi Tateishi
Technical SupportEdit
- Takehiro Oyama
- Shotaro Iwanaga
- Yoshito Yasuda
TestingEdit
- Naoki Takami
- Koichiro Hirano
- Takeshi Tamura
- Akiko Ohashi
- Mario Club Co., Ltd.
- Digital Hearts Co., Ltd.
Special ThanksEdit
- Keisuke Terasaki
- Norihito Ito
- Polyassets United Inc
ReferencesEdit
- ^ "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.
- ^ David Clynick's personal website. Retrieved January 25, 2019.