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Superstarxalien said:
it's par for the course for any videogame with a big budget, nowadays
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you are missing the point lol. Nevermind I'll stop getting annoyed.

Sure that is the case. But a 2d game like this does not normally take this much time. It's a lot less of an investment.
They had no deadline. They were allowed to do whatever. Which suggests this game might be a lot larger than we are used to for 2d Mario.
That is the sentiment here.
 
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"Beginning of development" doesn't have to mean much without clarification on how long the different phases of development were and what it included.
 
the first party thread being basically inactive in between new credits drops is how it should be imo

I don't want to click on the Nintendo first-party notification and then see a reply chain about the Mario mandates
 
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I know DK, and Wario, and Yoshi fans would be crushed, but EPD Tokyo’s 2D platformer being a completely new franchise would be so exciting and interesting.

It’s been……. A really long time since a new, non indie 2D franchise was started?
 
frog said:
the first party thread being basically inactive in between new credits drops is how it should be imo

I don't want to click on the Nintendo first-party notification and then see a reply chain about the Mario mandates
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Lock the thread. Change the name. If it's literally just a list of absolute facts.

Sorry but I can't take people's ignorance. We gotta balance it out a little with some rationality.
 
it's useful to have a thread where people just share information even if they don't necessarily talk about it. you can't expect OP to be the only one compiling information
 
wakko said:
This just isn't true at all. Neither Arlo nor Emily were responsible for starting this.

It came straight from the mouth of Nintendo Producer Kensuke Tanabe. And he said it in 2020.

https://screenrant.com/paper-mario-original-characters-policy-nintendo-switch/


On July 2020, Nintendo's Kensuke Tanabe said:
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She didn’t start this particular conversation but she put it in people’s heads well before TOK around the time of CS. It’s been a talking point for a long time now within the PM community.
 
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There's basically two views on what this thread should be:

1) A free for all first-party thread with place for idle chatter and speculation.
2) A reference thread where we only discuss credits and news that directly pertain to first-party development.

While it was traditionally the latter (partly due to its Era-legacy) the last few pages have also shown that the community wants a place where it can engage in the former. But now that we have a Switch 2 speculation thread all of that can go in there.
 
Dardan Sandiego said:
There's basically two views on what this thread should be:

1) A free for all first-party thread with place for idle chatter and speculation.
2) A reference thread where we only discuss credits and news that directly pertain to first-party development.

While it was traditionally the latter (partly due to its Era-legacy) the last few pages have also shown that the community wants a place where it can engage in the former. But now that we have a Switch 2 speculation thread all of that can go in there.
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Is technology related news/articles relevant to this thread (for exemple Monolith Soft explaining their upscaling technologies during conferences, also things like datamining to determine which engines are being used.)

I'd imagine interviews talking about game design would also be relevant ?

And no more looking at jobs posting/linkedin to assess what studios are working since that'd veer into speculation on I assume (which is better suited for other threads).
 
MondoMega said:
Saw a fun blog post on AlphaDream that may be of interest to people here.

www.papenspiling.com

アルファドリーム元スタッフの動向を調べてみた - Papen's Piling

お久しぶりです。ゲームやら私生活が忙しく何も書けておりませんでした。ただそんな中も、ゲーム業界の動向はたまに見ておりました。...
www.papenspiling.com www.papenspiling.com

There seems to be a misconception going around in Japanese fandom, that's even made it to AlphaDream's JP Wikipedia page, that the majority of staff ended up at Tose following the studio's bankrupcy, and worked on Live A Live HD-2D and the upcoming Super Mario RPG remake. It's pretty interesting to see how easily this sort of thing spreads in spite of how easy it is to debunk, which the writer does in four steps:
  • Tose's common model of being a "ghost developer" that goes uncredited makes tracking any staff specifically associated with them (and not other studios contributing to a project) difficult and unlikely.
  • There's no public mention of Tose's involvement on Live A Live (which was led by Historia and Team Asano) in the first place.
  • Simply looking at the credits of Bowser's Inside Story DX and seeing where some staff members have been credited since (much like a lot of the analysis done in this thread). Much like the findings here they determine Fantasian to have the most notable, abliet still overall modest overlap; but there are plenty of credits across the industry on titles from many publishers and studios.
  • We know literally nothing about who is working on Super Mario RPG and the Wikipedia article pulls that claim from nowehere; but even under the assumption that Tose were developing it, and there were a notable count of former AlphaDream staff at the studio, their potential roles on the staff would likely be limited to planning, design and UI positions given how the 3D elements of the 3DS Mario & Luigi installments were all outsourced to other studios.
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Out of curiosity, how do you come across blogs like these?
Like, what exactly do you search in order to find them - surely you don't just randomly stumble onto them, right?
 
Adulfzen said:
Is technology related news/articles relevant to this thread (for exemple Monolith Soft explaining their upscaling technologies during conferences, also things like datamining to determine which engines are being used.)

I'd imagine interviews talking about game design would also be relevant ?

And no more looking at jobs posting/linkedin to assess what studios are working since that'd veer into speculation on I assume (which is better suited for other threads).
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Maybe I'm the wrong person to answer this because I've always been in favour of just letting people discuss everything first-party in here. But I'd say that all of those examples you mentioned here should be fair game, even job postings, because they still contain more substantial information from direct sources than "hey wouldn't it be cool if Monolithsoft worked on a gritty Ice Climbers reboot?"

edit: meant first-party, not first-person lol
 
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Neves said:
Out of curiosity, how do you come across blogs like these?
Like, what exactly do you search in order to find them - surely you don't just randomly stumble onto them, right?
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probably search some reaction on X (formally known as Twitter) and stumble upon it
 
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Adulfzen said:
Is technology related news/articles relevant to this thread (for exemple Monolith Soft explaining their upscaling technologies during conferences, also things like datamining to determine which engines are being used.)

I'd imagine interviews talking about game design would also be relevant ?

And no more looking at jobs posting/linkedin to assess what studios are working since that'd veer into speculation on I assume (which is better suited for other threads).
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this is all stuff we have always talked about in this series of threads without problem. the latter part (job postings) though obviously within reason lol (as in, know that artwork that comes with job postings is not artwork from an actual project meant to represent the final product). btw remember that there is a dedicated monolithsoft thread where you can freely discuss their job postings and hiring artwork (it's also linked in the OP). I thought Retro had one too but that may have been on Era, not sure.
 
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Neves said:
Out of curiosity, how do you come across blogs like these?
Like, what exactly do you search in order to find them - surely you don't just randomly stumble onto them, right?
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Oh this one I did randomly stumble into lol; a Japanese account I follow retweeted it and it ended up being an interesting read. Will be following them on my own now though; they did some solid write-ups on TotK, Kirby and Prime Remastered credits earlier this year too, the former references EAD Ninja's own Kyoto Report which I got a kick out of seeing.
 
I don't have access to the full Telegraph article but I saw someone from Era sharing an excerpt from the article where Aonuma essentially doubles down on not providing more DLC and moving on to a new game (and new Hyrule supposedly) :

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www.telegraph.co.uk

Making Tears of the Kingdom: Inside The Legend of Zelda's finest hour

Nintendo developers Eiji Aonuma and Hidemaro Fujibayashi exclusively reveal how they followed one of the best video games ever made
www.telegraph.co.uk www.telegraph.co.uk

Honestly the right decision as TOTK is already massive and I'm sure creating a brand new world alongside new mechanics will take a long time even if some pre production work has already started while TOTK was in the end of development (tho I'm not as optimistic as other people thinking it'll be a "quicker" turnaround).

Obviously the earlier Famitsu interview already sounded pretty definitive but I think this is as clear cut as it gets.
 
Update on the credits: i've got them, but in a form that will take a long time to transcribe into a readable format. For now I have some notable leads and some misc roles I find interesting:
  • Director - Shiro Mouri
  • Producer - Takashi Tezuka
  • Programming Director - Hiroshi Umemiya
  • Art Director - Masanobu Sato
  • Production Management - Katsuya Eguchi, Hiroyuki Kimura
  • Sound Director - Koji Kondo
  • Music - Shiho Fujii, Sayako Doi, Chisaki Shimazu
  • Special Level-Design Adviser - Toshihiko Nakago
SRD and Nintendo Pictures are in the Special Thanks.

If there's any specific request before the full credits can be transcribed; let me know!
 
MondoMega said:
Update on the credits: i've got them, but in a form that will take a long time to transcribe into a readable format. For now I have some notable leads and some misc roles I find interesting:
  • Director - Shiro Mouri
  • Producer - Takashi Tezuka
  • Programming Director - Hiroshi Umemiya
  • Art Director - Masanobu Sato
  • Production Management - Katsuya Eguchi, Hiroyuki Kimura
  • Sound Director - Koji Kondo
  • Music - Shiho Fujii, Sayako Doi, Chisaki Shimazu
  • Special Level-Design Adviser - Toshihiko Nakago
SRD and Nintendo Pictures are in the Special Thanks.

If there's any specific request before the full credits can be transcribed; let me know!
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oh Koji kondo is sound director, was he one before? i dont think i remember him in such position
 
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MondoMega said:
Update on the credits: i've got them, but in a form that will take a long time to transcribe into a readable format. For now I have some notable leads and some misc roles I find interesting:
  • Director - Shiro Mouri
  • Producer - Takashi Tezuka
  • Programming Director - Hiroshi Umemiya
  • Art Director - Masanobu Sato
  • Production Management - Katsuya Eguchi, Hiroyuki Kimura
  • Sound Director - Koji Kondo
  • Music - Shiho Fujii, Sayako Doi, Chisaki Shimazu
  • Special Level-Design Adviser - Toshihiko Nakago
SRD and Nintendo Pictures are in the Special Thanks.

If there's any specific request before the full credits can be transcribed; let me know!
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Can you decipher a few of the planners? That’s one of the key items.

We should have the full credits soon.
 
EAD Ninja said:
an you decipher a few of the planners? That’s one of the key items.
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There's no position explicitly labelled as Planning in these credits, so here's Game Design:
  • Koichi Hayashida
  • Terumasa Kato
  • Eiji Mukao
  • Hajime Nakao
  • Ryuhei Matsuura
  • Kenichiro Yoshioka
  • Shigefumi Hino
  • Satoko Higashi
  • Yuji Watanabe
One other curious position I forgot to include last time (both in the label itself and also being another Tokyo staffer like Hayashida):

Visual and Look Development - Naoki Mineta
 
MondoMega said:
There's no position explicitly labelled as Planning in these credits, so here's Game Design:
  • Koichi Hayashida
  • Terumasa Kato
  • Eiji Mukao
  • Hajime Nakao
  • Ryuhei Matsuura
  • Kenichiro Yoshioka
  • Shigefumi Hino
  • Satoko Higashi
  • Yuji Watanabe
One other curious position I forgot to include last time (both in the label itself and also being another Tokyo staffer like Hayashida):

Visual and Look Development - Naoki Mineta
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Yuji Watanabe was the hire from Square-Enix who did script writing on several Dragon Quest titles.
 
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MondoMega said:
There's no position explicitly labelled as Planning in these credits, so here's Game Design:
  • Koichi Hayashida
  • Terumasa Kato
  • Eiji Mukao
  • Hajime Nakao
  • Ryuhei Matsuura
  • Kenichiro Yoshioka
  • Shigefumi Hino
  • Satoko Higashi
  • Yuji Watanabe
One other curious position I forgot to include last time (both in the label itself and also being another Tokyo staffer like Hayashida):

Visual and Look Development - Naoki Mineta
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Does game design mean writing? its always so confusing to me, not sure why they dont just put planner into game design and game design into writing in english credits
 
Nemesis24 said:
Does game design mean writing? its always so confusing to me, not sure why they dont just put planner into game design and game design into writing in english credits
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Game Design and Script Design (writing) are both components of planning. So they can label it broadly as planning or more specifically.
 
Need to take a break from transcribing (the next time I post it should be the full credits sans localisation staff) but it's worth chewing on the level designer list for now:

Course Level Design
  • Takayuki Ikkaku
  • Minoru Narita
  • Yuhei Ariyama
  • Takayuki Hirai
  • Makoto Ono
  • Kai Kiku
  • Yasuhisa Yamamura
  • Eiji Noto
  • Yuko Nishimura
  • Yuichi Takano
  • Tomoyuki Watanabe
  • Yoichi Nagai
  • Sho Miyata
  • Shoichiro Takeyoshi
  • Kana Aiba
  • Tatsuya Nawata
  • Tomohiro Hirao
  • Yoki Omura
  • Rika Yamamoto
 
with Hayashida in there, is this another Super Mario Maker 2 situation where they had EPD Tokyo involved?
 
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Super Mario Bros. Wonder credits (sans the localisation credits; only left the headers to mark where they would be). In the files the names are sorted alphabetically by position, so naturally this shouldn't be the exact order the names appear in-game.

Art Director
  • Masanobu Sato

Artwork
  • Aya Oyama
  • Minoru Uenaka
  • Shigehisa Nakaue
  • Takanao Kondo
  • Taku Ito
  • Tsuyoshi Watanabe
  • Yu Yamamoto

Character Action Design
  • Tatsuya Sakai
  • Takahiro Nishigaki
  • Takaki Yoshida
  • Miryan Paku
  • Kazuto Takatama
  • Hiroyuki Morishima
  • Munetaka Kurosaki
  • Yuta Mizushima
  • Tomoyuki Hattori
  • Yutaka Funatani
  • Shigeto Hozumi
  • Hiroto Nakanishi
  • Sota Tanaka
  • Naoko Adachi

Character Design
  • Keisuke Umeda
  • Moe Shirataki
  • Hirohito Shinoda
  • Rio Kurosaki
  • Tomomi Sumaki
  • Hiroki Yamada
  • Riko Shibanuma
  • Ken Minobe
  • Hiromi Sugimoto
  • Yu Yang
  • Shohei Imamura
  • Takahisa Ikejiri
  • Yusuke Suzuki
  • Takuma Tokita
  • Yuki Kaneko
  • Shungo Suzuki
  • Kiyoe Saito
  • Hiroshi Tanaka
  • Ryo Sugimoto
  • Yuki Ishii
  • Sidan Wang
  • Shota Hosogai
  • Fumiko Nishimura
  • Megumi Hamasaki

Cinematic Design
  • Jumpei Akasaka
  • Tomoe Aratani
  • Shigeki Yoshida
  • Ryuichi Tsurunosono
  • Naoki Kobayashi
  • Koichi Honma
  • Yu Ihara
  • Emi Hirai

Course Level Design
  • Takayuki Ikkaku
  • Minoru Narita
  • Yuhei Ariyama
  • Takayuki Hirai
  • Makoto Ono
  • Kai Kiku
  • Yasuhisa Yamamura
  • Eiji Noto
  • Yuko Nishimura
  • Yuichi Takano
  • Tomoyuki Watanabe
  • Yoichi Nagai
  • Sho Miyata
  • Shoichiro Takeyoshi
  • Kana Aiba
  • Tatsuya Nawata
  • Tomohiro Hirao
  • Yoki Omura
  • Rika Yamamoto

Debug Support
  • Shotaro Iwanaga
  • Shogo Takaki
  • Yuta Ogawa
  • Toru Inage

Development Support
  • Tatsuya Hishida
  • Ko Yamamoto
  • Kosuke Yamamoto

Director
  • Shiro Mouri

Enemy and Object Programming
  • Kensuke Muraki
  • Ayano Masaki
  • Hiromasa Iwamoto
  • Atsushi Yamazaki
  • Yusaku Shimizu
  • Tatsuo Nishiyama
  • Takamitsu Kuzuhara
  • Shogo Kihara
  • Yudai Fukuta
  • Hiro Ochiai
  • Jun Tsuzuki
  • Rintaro Sozu
  • Shohei Degawa
  • Atsuki Onishi
  • Hiroyuki Kato
  • Taishi Hori
  • Keita Hikichi
  • Sei Ohirabaru
  • Ryonosuke Yamada
  • Yosuke Sakooka

Engineering Support
  • Yuta Yamamoto
  • Yoji Okudera
  • Hitoshi Kanetani
  • Shikou Yamaue
  • Takayuki Yanagisawa

Environment Programming
  • Kazuhiro Wabe
  • Katsuma Sonobe
  • Kenji Higashiyama

Executive Producer
  • Shuntaro Furukawa

Field Design
  • Saki Kaneko
  • Yasutomo Nishibe
  • Yuriko Suzuki
  • Tetsuya Kobayashi
  • Soshiro Suzuki
  • Shintaro Kashiwagi
  • Hanaka Narishima
  • Yasuko Hamaoka
  • Shota Kishita
  • Ai Kobayashi
  • Yohei Izumi
  • Masato Amma
  • Karon Shiihara
  • Masahiro Fukuoka
  • Kei Watanuki
  • Takateru Kadota
  • Satoshi Takamura
  • Yutaro Sato
  • Asahi Kikuchi
  • Megumi Watanabe
  • Yumi Ooka
  • Akira Inoue

Game Design
  • Koichi Hayashida
  • Terumasa Kato
  • Eiji Mukao
  • Hajime Nakao
  • Ryuhei Matsuura
  • Kenichiro Yoshioka
  • Shigefumi Hino
  • Satoko Higashi
  • Yuji Watanabe

General Producer
  • Shinya Takahashi

Graphics Programming
  • Kazuhiro Nakari
  • Tatsuya Shinada
  • Takahiro Yagushi
  • Shuhei Maekawa

iQue Localization Coordination
iQue Quality Assurance
iQue Translation

Music
  • Shiho Fujii
  • Sayako Doi
  • Chisaki Shimazu

Network Adviser
  • Daisuke Nakamura

Network Programming
  • Kojiro Taguchi
  • Takeshi Wakasugi
  • Yukari Suzuki

NHT Localization Coordination
NHT Quality Assurance
NHT Translation
NOA Localization
NOA Localization Management
NOA Product Testing
NOE Localisation Producers
NOE Quality Assurance
NOE Translation
NOK Localization Management
NOK Quality Assurance
NOK Translation

Player Programming
  • Takuto Hirukawa
  • Keigo Nakanishi
  • Yuki Takaya

Producer
  • Takashi Tezuka

Production Management
  • Katsuya Eguchi
  • Hiroyuki Kimura

Programming Director
  • Hiroshi Umemiya

Project Management
  • Shigeyuki Asuke
  • Shohei Mizutani
  • Hitoshi Shimamori

QA Engineering
  • Masatoshi Ogawa
  • Kenichi Nishiyama
  • Atsushi Nishiwaki
  • Masaro Sakakibara
  • Kunihiro Komatsu

Sound Adviser
  • Koichi Kyuma

Sound Design
  • Sanae Uchida
  • Takahiko Fujita
  • Etsuro Urabe
  • Hiromitsu Fujikawa
  • Riyu Tamura
  • Takahiro Nosho
  • Taiyo Furukawa
  • Eka Chin
  • Rintaro Sato

Sound Director
  • Koji Kondo

Sound Programming
  • Chihiro Okada
  • Ryo Takami

Special Level-Design Adviser
  • Toshihiko Nakago

Special Thanks
  • Masanao Arimoto
  • Ayako Akaza
  • Tomo Tanaka
  • Takuya Matsunobu
  • Daichi Nonaka
  • Ryo Kodama
  • Keijiro Inoue
  • Makoto Yonezu
  • Keisuke Nishimori
  • Yoshihisa Morimoto
  • Jin Ikeda
  • Shunsuke Makita
  • Tsutomu Kaneshige
  • Toyoki Kataoka
  • Ryota Maruko
  • Takahiro Miyagawa
  • Takeshi Ishida
  • Kenichi Hirose
  • Yoshihiko Sakuraba
  • Takuma Oiso
  • Shozo Hidaka
  • Kazuya Sumaki
  • Satoru Osako
  • Yuichiro Okamura
  • Katsuhisa Sato
  • Takahiro Takayama
  • Toshio Iwawaki
  • Kazuaki Morita
  • Yuji Sawatani
  • Gentaro Takaki
  • Hisashi Okada
  • Fumiya Nakano
  • Hiroyuki Taniwa
  • Yohei Miyagawa
  • SRD Co., Ltd.
  • Nintendo Pictures Co., Ltd.

Supervisor
  • Shigeru Miyamoto

System Programming
  • Mahito Idehara
  • Kazuki Misu
  • Seiichiro Fukuda
  • Makoto Sasaki
  • Koji Sakai

Technical Support
  • Akihisa Watabe
  • Eiji Sumida
  • Yoshiyuki Tsuji

Testing
  • Jun Sugiyama
  • Takeshi Saigo
  • Wataru Goto
  • Daiki Yokouchi
  • Koji Hosokawa
  • Shota Kobayashi
  • Masakazu Takahashi
  • Yuko Kaneko
  • Erina Tanaka
  • Miki Kawata
  • Hayato Horiuchi
  • Ao Masuda
  • Shinya Morimoto
  • Kazuki Kusuda
  • Yukiko Wada
  • Tomoaki Tatsumi
  • Mario Club Co., Ltd.
  • Pole To Win, Inc.

UI Design
  • Mai Yamamoto
  • Ryota Irie
  • Satomi Tateishi
  • Haruka Nishinaga

UI Programming
  • Ryo Takebayashi
  • Momoko Shibutani
  • Atsushi Sakaguchi
  • Masayuki Kuwajima
  • Shun Ikuno
  • Shigehiro Kasamatsu
  • Nobuhiko Sadamoto
  • Satoru Takahata
  • Takashi Yoshimi
  • Makoto Shirakawa

VFX Design
  • Takeshi Nishimura
  • Eriko Matsui
  • Suzuka Tomiishi
  • Misato Iwasawa
  • Kojiro Inoue
  • Haruyasu Ito

Visual and Look Development
  • Naoki Mineta

Voice Actors
  • Kevin Afghani
  • Luís Barros
  • Dawn M. Bennet
  • Christine Marie Cabanos
  • Nakyoon Choi
  • Paolo De Santis
  • Ewout Eggink
  • Caitlyn Elizabeth
  • Giselle Fernandez
  • Leandro Hainis
  • Kenny James
  • Samantha Kelly
  • Junji Kitajima
  • Anton Kobylko
  • Rafa Parra
  • Jérémy Prévost
  • Ma Bo Qiang
  • Caety Sagoian
  • Jan Uplegger
  • Alan Fernando Velazquez
  • Mick Wingert

Voice Directors
  • Jean-Philippe Brière
  • Hilde de Mildt
  • Mário Dias
  • Tina Hsing
  • Michael Hülsmann
  • Ilja Köster
  • André Mello
  • Roman Palmov
  • Guillermo Reinlein
  • Alessandro Ricci
  • Miguel Ángel Ruíz Díaz
  • Changhyeon Ryu
  • Patrick Seitz

Voice Recording
  • Bad Animals
  • Cup of Tea Productions, Inc.
  • Keywords Studios
  • SIDE UK
  • Sound Map

World Map Programming
  • Nobuhiro Matsumura
  • Ryu Shinomiya
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MondoMega said:
Super Mario Bros. Wonder credits (sans the localisation credits; only left the headers to mark where they would be). In the files the names are sorted alphabetically by position, so naturally this shouldn't be the exact order the names appear in-game.
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Headcount wise I'm curious what the difference between Wonder and NSMBU is
 
Gingerbread Man said:
So with EPD Tokyo working on Wonder... Was Wonder the 2D Tokyo project all along?
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So far that's only Koichi Hayashida who previously also worked on other 2D Mario titles like Super Mario Maker 2. It could very well be that some of the new planners or artists come from Tokyo - but that isn't apparent here yet.
 
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Nemesis24 said:
I see, that seems hard to tell how someone is doing what if its not specified
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Hey, at least the roles are labeled, even if it's a bit more broad than desired. (No, I'll never get over the Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury credits. Worse credits I've seen in my life.)
 
ItWasMeantToBe19 said:
EPD Tokyo doing Wonder co-dev was always possible as their 2D project, but it would be the worst outcome, lol.

EPD now just exclusively doing Zelda, 2D Mario, 3D Mario, Mario Kart, Animal Crossing, Splatoon, and some casual games.
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This is roughly what they have done since the Wii/DS era though.

Wii/DS Era
  • Mario Kart
  • Animal Crossing
  • New Super Mario Bros.
  • 3D Zelda
  • 2D Zelda
  • 3D Mario
  • Wii Pikmin ports
  • Casual games (Wii Sports/Play/Fit/Music, Nintendogs, Big Brain Academy, Flipnote)
  • Close partnership with Q-Games for Star Fox Command

Wii U/3DS era
  • Mario Kart
  • Animal Crossing & spin-off
  • New Super Mario Bros. & Super Mario Maker
  • 3D Mario & Captain Toad
  • 3D Zelda
  • 2D Zelda
  • Pikmin
  • Splatoon
  • Casual games (Nintendo Land, Wii Fit U, Wii Sports Club with Bamco)
  • Close partnerships with Vitei, Q-Games and Platinum for Star Fox, Steel Diver, Tank Troopers

We lost 2D Zelda (a huge shame, really) and the Star Fox team partnerships, and Pikmin is now co-developed by an external team, but the bunk of the series is still developed internally. But on the other hand, we had ARMS.

I'm more sad for R&D1/SPD1/EPD7. They haven't developed a single game internally for the whole generation. I guess they are an external production group now.
 
Gingerbread Man said:
This is roughly what they have done since the Wii/DS era though.

Wii/DS Era
  • Mario Kart
  • Animal Crossing
  • New Super Mario Bros.
  • 3D Zelda
  • 2D Zelda
  • 3D Mario
  • Wii Pikmin ports
  • Casual games (Wii Sports/Play/Fit/Music, Nintendogs, Big Brain Academy, Flipnote)
  • Close partnership with Q-Games for Star Fox Command

Wii U/3DS era
  • Mario Kart
  • Animal Crossing & spin-off
  • New Super Mario Bros. & Super Mario Maker
  • 3D Mario & Captain Toad
  • 3D Zelda
  • 2D Zelda
  • Pikmin
  • Splatoon
  • Casual games (Nintendo Land, Wii Fit U, Wii Sports Club with Bamco)
  • Close partnerships with Vitei, Q-Games and Platinum for Star Fox, Steel Diver, Tank Troopers

We lost 2D Zelda (a huge shame, really) and the Star Fox team partnerships, and Pikmin is now co-developed by an external team, but the bunk of the series is still developed internally. But on the other hand, we had ARMS.

I'm more sad for R&D1/SPD1/EPD7. They haven't developed a single game internally for the whole generation. I guess they are an external production group now.
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Sure, but EPD Tokyo hiring for a new 2D platformer gave some hope that they would do a game other than The Six and that’s looking less likely.

Very hard to see where a new IP for next gen could come from.
 
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Director
Shiro Mouri

Game Design
Koichi Hayashida (EPD Tokyo)
Terumasa Kato
Eiji Mukao
Hajime Nakao
Ryuhei Matsuura
Kenichiro Yoshioka
Shigefumi Hino
Satoko Higashi
Yuji Watanabe (EPD Tokyo)

Course Level Design
Takayuki Ikkaku
Minoru Narita
Yuhei Ariyama
Takayuki Hirai
Makoto Ono
Kai Kiku
Yasuhisa Yamamura
Eiji Noto
Yuko Nishimura
Yuichi Takano
Tomoyuki Watanabe
Yoichi Nagai
Sho Miyata
Shoichiro Takeyoshi (Mario Club)
Kana Aiba (Mario Club)
Tatsuya Nawata (Mario Club)
Tomohiro Hirao (Mario Club)
Yoki Omura (Mario Club)
Rika Yamamoto (Mario Club)

Special Level-Design Adviser
Toshihiko Nakago

Art Director
Masanobu Sato

Character Design
Keisuke Umeda
Moe Shirataki
Hirohito Shinoda
Rio Kurosaki
Tomomi Sumaki
Hiroki Yamada
Riko Shibanuma
Ken Minobe
Hiromi Sugimoto
Yu Yang
Shohei Imamura
Takahisa Ikejiri
Yusuke Suzuki
Takuma Tokita
Yuki Kaneko
Shungo Suzuki
Kiyoe Saito (Nintendo Pictures)
Hiroshi Tanaka (Nintendo Pictures)
Ryo Sugimoto (Nintendo Pictures)
Yuki Ishii (Nintendo Pictures)
Sidan Wang (Nintendo Pictures)
Shota Hosogai (Nintendo Pictures)
Fumiko Nishimura (Nintendo Pictures)
Megumi Hamasaki (Nintendo Pictures)

Character Action Design
Tatsuya Sakai
Takahiro Nishigaki
Takaki Yoshida
Miryan Paku
Kazuto Takatama
Hiroyuki Morishima
Munetaka Kurosaki (Nintendo Pictures)
Yuta Mizushima (Nintendo Pictures)
Tomoyuki Hattori (Nintendo Pictures)
Yutaka Funatani (Nintendo Pictures)
Shigeto Hozumi (Nintendo Pictures)
Hiroto Nakanishi (Nintendo Pictures)
Sota Tanaka (Nintendo Pictures)
Naoko Adachi (Nintendo Pictures)

Field Design
Saki Kaneko
Yasutomo Nishibe
Yuriko Suzuki
Tetsuya Kobayashi
Soshiro Suzuki
Shintaro Kashiwagi
Hanaka Narishima
Yasuko Hamaoka
Shota Kishita
Ai Kobayashi
Yohei Izumi
Masato Amma
Karon Shiihara
Masahiro Fukuoka (Nintendo Pictures)
Kei Watanuki (Nintendo Pictures)
Takateru Kadota (Nintendo Pictures)
Satoshi Takamura (Nintendo Pictures)
Yutaro Sato (Nintendo Pictures)
Asahi Kikuchi (Nintendo Pictures)
Megumi Watanabe (Nintendo Pictures)
Yumi Ooka (Nintendo Pictures)
Akira Inoue (Nintendo Pictures)

UI Design
Mai Yamamoto
Ryota Irie
Satomi Tateishi
Haruka Nishinaga

VFX Design
Takeshi Nishimura
Eriko Matsui
Suzuka Tomiishi
Misato Iwasawa
Kojiro Inoue
Haruyasu Ito

Cinematic Design
Jumpei Akasaka
Tomoe Aratani
Shigeki Yoshida
Ryuichi Tsurunosono (Nintendo Pictures)
Naoki Kobayashi (Nintendo Pictures)
Koichi Honma (Nintendo Pictures)
Yu Ihara (Nintendo Pictures)
Emi Hirai (Nintendo Pictures)

Visual and Look Development
Naoki Mineta (EPD Tokyo)

Artwork
Aya Oyama
Minoru Uenaka
Shigehisa Nakaue
Takanao Kondo
Taku Ito
Tsuyoshi Watanabe
Yu Yamamoto

Programming Director
Hiroshi Umemiya

System Programming
Mahito Idehara
Kazuki Misu
Seiichiro Fukuda
Makoto Sasaki
Koji Sakai

Player Programming
Takuto Hirukawa
Keigo Nakanishi
Yuki Takaya

Enemy and Object Programming
Kensuke Muraki
Ayano Masaki
Hiromasa Iwamoto
Atsushi Yamazaki
Yusaku Shimizu
Tatsuo Nishiyama
Takamitsu Kuzuhara
Shogo Kihara
Yudai Fukuta
Hiro Ochiai
Jun Tsuzuki
Rintaro Sozu
Shohei Degawa
Atsuki Onishi
Hiroyuki Kato
Taishi Hori
Keita Hikichi
Sei Ohirabaru
Ryonosuke Yamada
Yosuke Sakooka

UI Programming
Ryo Takebayashi
Momoko Shibutani
Atsushi Sakaguchi
Masayuki Kuwajima
Shun Ikuno
Shigehiro Kasamatsu
Nobuhiko Sadamoto
Satoru Takahata
Takashi Yoshimi
Makoto Shirakawa

Environment Programming
Kazuhiro Wabe
Katsuma Sonobe
Kenji Higashiyama

World Map Programming
Nobuhiro Matsumura
Ryu Shinomiya

Graphics Programming
Kazuhiro Nakari
Tatsuya Shinada
Takahiro Yagushi
Shuhei Maekawa

Network Programming
Kojiro Taguchi
Takeshi Wakasugi
Yukari Suzuki

Network Adviser
Daisuke Nakamura

QA Engineering
Masatoshi Ogawa
Kenichi Nishiyama
Atsushi Nishiwaki
Masaro Sakakibara
Kunihiro Komatsu

Engineering Support
Yuta Yamamoto
Yoji Okudera
Hitoshi Kanetani
Shikou Yamaue
Takayuki Yanagisawa

Sound Director
Koji Kondo

Music
Shiho Fujii
Sayako Doi
Chisaki Shimazu

Sound Design
Sanae Uchida
Takahiko Fujita
Etsuro Urabe
Hiromitsu Fujikawa
Riyu Tamura
Takahiro Nosho
Taiyo Furukawa
Eka Chin
Rintaro Sato

Sound Programming
Chihiro Okada
Ryo Takami

Sound Adviser
Koichi Kyuma

Technical Support
Akihisa Watabe (Nintendo Pictures)
Eiji Sumida (Nintendo Pictures)
Yoshiyuki Tsuji (Nintendo Pictures)

Project Management
Shigeyuki Asuke
Shohei Mizutani
Hitoshi Shimamori (Nintendo Pictures)


Development Support
Tatsuya Hishida
Ko Yamamoto
Kosuke Yamamoto

Voice Directors
Jean-Philippe Brière
Hilde de Mildt
Mário Dias
Tina Hsing
Michael Hülsmann
Ilja Köster
André Mello
Roman Palmov
Guillermo Reinlein
Alessandro Ricci
Miguel Ángel Ruíz Díaz
Changhyeon Ryu
Patrick Seitz

Voice Actors
Kevin Afghani
Luís Barros
Dawn M. Bennet
Christine Marie Cabanos
Nakyoon Choi
Paolo De Santis
Ewout Eggink
Caitlyn Elizabeth
Giselle Fernandez
Leandro Hainis
Kenny James
Samantha Kelly
Junji Kitajima
Anton Kobylko
Rafa Parra
Jérémy Prévost
Ma Bo Qiang
Caety Sagoian
Jan Uplegger
Alan Fernando Velazquez
Mick Wingert

Voice Recording
Bad Animals
Cup of Tea Productions, Inc.
Keywords Studios
SIDE UK
Sound Map

Testing
Jun Sugiyama
Takeshi Saigo
Wataru Goto
Daiki Yokouchi
Koji Hosokawa
Shota Kobayashi
Masakazu Takahashi
Yuko Kaneko
Erina Tanaka
Miki Kawata
Hayato Horiuchi
Ao Masuda
Shinya Morimoto
Kazuki Kusuda
Yukiko Wada
Tomoaki Tatsumi
Mario Club Co., Ltd.
Pole To Win, Inc.

iQue Localization Coordination
iQue Quality Assurance
iQue Translation
NHT Localization Coordination
NHT Quality Assurance
NHT Translation
NOA Localization
NOA Localization Management
NOA Product Testing
NOE Localisation Producers
NOE Quality Assurance
NOE Translation
NOK Localization Management
NOK Quality Assurance
NOK Translation

Debug Support
Shotaro Iwanaga
Shogo Takaki
Yuta Ogawa
Toru Inage

Special Thanks
Masanao Arimoto
Ayako Akaza
Tomo Tanaka
Takuya Matsunobu
Daichi Nonaka
Ryo Kodama
Keijiro Inoue
Makoto Yonezu
Keisuke Nishimori
Yoshihisa Morimoto
Jin Ikeda
Shunsuke Makita
Tsutomu Kaneshige
Toyoki Kataoka
Ryota Maruko
Takahiro Miyagawa
Takeshi Ishida
Kenichi Hirose
Yoshihiko Sakuraba
Takuma Oiso
Shozo Hidaka
Kazuya Sumaki
Satoru Osako
Yuichiro Okamura
Katsuhisa Sato
Takahiro Takayama
Toshio Iwawaki
Kazuaki Morita
Yuji Sawatani
Gentaro Takaki
Hisashi Okada
Fumiya Nakano
Hiroyuki Taniwa
Yohei Miyagawa
SRD Co., Ltd.
Nintendo Pictures Co., Ltd.


Producer
Takashi Tezuka

Supervisor
Shigeru Miyamoto

Production Management
Katsuya Eguchi
Hiroyuki Kimura

General Producer
Shinya Takahashi

Executive Producer
Shuntaro Furukawa
 
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