Donkey Kong Country Returns
Platform: WiiGenres: Genres · Action · Side view · 2D scrolling · Platform · Direct control · Motion control
Donkey Kong Island awakes to the sound of an unusual hum, the musical beat of a new source of evil calling themselves the Tikis. These unusual characters are turning the animals of the island into slaves for their own food gathering purposes, but...
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Cast & Crew · 180 people
- Michael Kelbaugh· Executive Producer
- Bryan Walker· Senior Development Director
- Ryan Harris· Production Manager
- Shane D. Lewis· Production Coordination
- Kynan Pearson· Senior Design
- Mike Wikan· Senior Design
- Tom Ivey· Senior Design
- Andy Schwalenberg· Design
- Bill Vandervoort· Design
- Brandon Paul Salinas· Design
- Jay Fuller· Design
- Russell O'Henly· Design
- Jonathan Delange· Contract Design
- Stephen Dupree· Contract Design
- Vince Joly· Art Director
- Ryan Powell· Art Lead
- Elben Schafers· Principal Art
- Chris Voellmann· Technical Art
- Chuck Crist· Senior Art
- Luis Ramirez· Senior Art
- Amanda Rotella· Art
- Jay Epperson· Art
- Matt Manchester· Art
- Quinn Smith· Art
- Sean Horton· Art
- Ted Anderson· Art
- Teague Schultz· Art
- Thomas Robins· Art
- Russell Lingo· Art
- Mark Brady· Contract Art
- Reed Ketcham· Contract Art
- Michael Witt· Contract Art
- Dax Pallotta· Senior Animation
- Derek Bonikowski· Senior Animation
- Will Bate· Senior Animation
- Carlos Mendieta· Animation
- Raphael Perkins· Animation
- Stephen Zafros· Animation
- Chris Torres· Contract Animation
- Nick McBride· Contract Animation
- Danny Richardson· Additional Thanks
- Sammy Hall· Additional Thanks
- Tim Little· Engineering Director
- Aaron Walker· Senior Engineering
- Alexander Quinones· Senior Engineering
- Jim Gage· Senior Engineering
- Mike Miller· Senior Engineering
- Akintunde Omitowoju· Engineering
- Andy Hanson· Engineering
- Dan Higdon· Engineering
- Eric Rehmeyer· Engineering
- Frank Maddin· Engineering
- Jesse Spears· Engineering
- John Sheblak· Engineering
- Jose Guerra· Engineering
- Rhys Lewis· Engineering
- Ryan Cornelius· Engineering
- Scott Petersen· Audio Supervisor
- Robert Arlauskas· Contract Sound Design
- Frank Bry· Contract Sound Design
- Montgomery Goulet· Contract Sound Scripting
- Al Artus· Operations
- Ethan McDonald· Operations
- Faith Casper· Operations
- George Thomas· Operations
- Kellie Prinz Johnson· Operations
- Akiko Furukawa-Laban· Translation & Administration
- Shinya Takahashi· General Producer
- Kensuke Tanabe· Producer
- Shigeru Miyamoto· Supervisor
- Risa Tabata· Assistant Producer
- Yuji Ichijo· Coordination
- Kaori Miyachi· Coordination
- Kiyohiko Ando· Coordination Support
- Atsuto Yagi· Coordination Support
- Kenji Yamamoto· Music Supervisor
- Minako Hamano· Music
- Masaru Tajima· Music
- Shinji Ushiroda· Music
- Daisuke Matsuoka· Music
- Naoki Mori· Storyboards
- Tomoe Aratani· Storyboards
- Shigehisa Nakaue· Illustration/Conceptual Art Support
- Tsuyoshi Watanabe· Character Supervisors
- Yusuke Nakano· Character Supervisors
- Yoshitomo Kitamura· Artwork
- Keisuke Kadota· Artwork
- Yasuo Inoue· Artwork
- Yoshito Yasuda· Technical Support
- Shingo Okamoto· Technical Support
- Tomohiro Umeda· Technical Support
- Keisuke Terasaki· Special Thanks
- Akiya Sakamoto· Special Thanks
- Toshihiko Okamoto· Special Thanks
- Takumi Kawagoe· Special Thanks
- Shintaro Kashiwagi· Special Thanks
- Hiroki Hirano· Special Thanks
- Kanae Dohta· Special Thanks
- Takashi Tezuka· Special Thanks
- Hiroyuki Kimura· Special Thanks
- Shigeyuki Asuke· Special Thanks
- Tsutomu Kaneshige· Special Thanks
- Yoshiaki Koizumi· Special Thanks
- Mahito Yokota· Special Thanks
- Satoru Iwata· Executive Producer
- Manabu Fukuda· Business Development
- Tom Prata· Project Development
- Tim Bechtel· Project Development
- Todd Buechele· Project Development/NOA Coordination
- Nathan Bihldorff· NOA Localization
- Eric M. Smith· NOA Localization
- Anne-Marie Laperrière· NOA Localization
- César Pérez· NOA Localization
- Ross Hirai· NOA Design
- Hitomi Ross· NOA Design
- Sean Egan· NOA Product Testing
- Robert Jahn· NOA Product Testing
- Kathy Huguenard· NOA Product Testing
- Teresa Lillygren· NOA Product Testing
- Nicko Gonzalez De Santiago· NOA Product Testing
- Sara Hoad· NOA Product Testing
- Stéphane Arlot· NOA Product Testing
- Jeffrey Storbo· NOA Product Testing
- Reggie Fils-Aimé· Special Thanks
- Jacqualee Story· Special Thanks
- Jill Whitney· Special Thanks
- Nicola Wright· Special Thanks
- Mindy Bannan· Special Thanks
- Jason Mahaffa· Special Thanks
- Gregg Brown· Special Thanks
- Peter Nielsen· Special Thanks
- Ryan Pikarski· Special Thanks
- Seyla Keo· Special Thanks
- Andreas Fey· Localization Management
- Martin Weers· Localization Management
- Palma Sánchez de Moya Rodríguez· Localization Coordination
- Wolfgang Weber· Quality Assurance Coordination
- Eren Baykal· Translation
- Arielle Walter· Translation
- Gurvan Le Guen· Translation
- Giovanna Canta· Translation
- Adriano Antonini· Translation
- Jessica Ferlmann· Translation
- Janine Wetherell· Translation
- Alex Valero· Translation
- Ariel del Rio de Angelis· Translation
- Roisin McCorkell· Quality Assurance
- Sean Keoghan· Quality Assurance
- Marc Fisher· Quality Assurance
- Guillaume Deschamps· Quality Assurance
- Adrien Rispal· Quality Assurance
- Jérôme Petit· Quality Assurance
- Marcello Tridenti· Quality Assurance
- Luca Keller· Quality Assurance
- Andrea Bellezza· Quality Assurance
- Andreas Langer· Quality Assurance
- Isabelle Stein· Quality Assurance
- Victoria Butzler· Quality Assurance
- David Martín Navarro· Quality Assurance
- Mario Maldonado Rodríguez· Quality Assurance
- Pablo Jesús Sánchez Morcillo· Quality Assurance
- Andrea Dopico· Artwork Producers
- Britta Henrich· Artwork Producers
- Pieter Van Nueten· Proof Reading and Layout
- André Hahn· Proof Reading and Layout
- Julia Jarocki· Proof Reading and Layout
- Ana Luz· Proof Reading and Layout
- Marion Magat· Proof Reading and Layout
- Cornelia Bilz· Proof Reading and Layout
- Sascha Nickel· Proof Reading and Layout
- Verena Lischka· Proof Reading and Layout
- Uschi Lipinski· Proof Reading and Layout
- Oleg Sdarskij· Proof Reading and Layout
- Martin Heyne· Proof Reading and Layout
- Monika Händschke· Proof Reading and Layout
- Jasmina Libonati· Proof Reading and Layout
- Wojtek Sitarski· Proof Reading and Layout
- George Kamaroudis· Proof Reading and Layout
- Robert DeBoer· Dutch Manual Text Translation
- Carsten Harmans· Dutch Manual Text Translation
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