List of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze staff

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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 staff

Executive Producer

Production Director

  • Ryan Harris

Contract Production

  • Pete Nielsen
  • Nick Shaw

Creative Director

Design

Lead Design

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
  • Peter Nielsen (Sax Solo in the Staff Credits music, uncredited)[1]

Mixing (uncredited)

  • David Clynick[2]

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

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

Nintendo staff

Executive Producer

General Producer

  • Shinya Takahashi

Producer

Supervisor

Assistant Producer

Coordination

  • Kaori Miyachi

Design/Coordination Support

  • Toshihiko Okamoto

Music Supervisor

Music/Voice Recording

Character Voice

Cinematics Supervisors

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

Special Thanks

  • Keisuke Terasaki
  • Norihito Ito
  • Polyassets United Inc

References

  1. ^ "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.
  2. ^ David Clynick's personal website. Retrieved January 25, 2019.