Nintendo EPD Developer Tracker http://kyoto-report.wikidot.com/forum/t-12791832/nintendo-epd-developer-tracker Posts in the discussion thread "Nintendo EPD Developer Tracker" - Personnel tracker for Nintendo EPD game staff. Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:56:39 +0000 http://kyoto-report.wikidot.com/forum/t-12791832#post-5147960 Re: Nintendo EPD Developer Tracker http://kyoto-report.wikidot.com/forum/t-12791832/nintendo-epd-developer-tracker#post-5147960 Sat, 04 Dec 2021 21:04:32 +0000 Kyoto Ninja 1340009 Nintendo - Entertainment Analysis & Development (EPD)

Name Field Tenure Tag Origin
Shinya Takahashi Manager 1993 - Current # From Software
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Minami Akao Visual 2020 - Current # From Software
Pedro Avelo Sound 2018 - Current # Konami
Junichi Iida Planning 2020 - Current # Sumzap, Enish, Genki
Hideki Kaneko Technology 2019 - Current # College Recruit
Minhee Kim Art Coordinator 2020 - Current # Game Freak, KLab
Hirotada Kirayama Software Engineer 2017 - Current # College Recruit
Yukari Kitada Environment Design 2020 - Current # Square-Enix
Mitsutoshi Kodama Sound EFX 2019 - Current # Tose, Capcom
Xuewei Li Character Design 2019 - Current # Namco-Bandai
Taiki Mitsuishi Environment Design 2020 - Current #
Sumi Nakamura Software Engineer 2021 - Current # College Recruit
Naoki Nishimura UI/UX Design 2019 - Current #
Keigo Ogawa Software Engineer 2019 - Current # College Recruit
Chihiro Okawa UI/UX Design 2019 - Current # Brother International
Makoto Ono Planner 2017 - Current #
Koichi Sato Sound EFX 2019 - Current # Tango, Konami
Tiago Sonobe Software Engineer 2016 - Current # Namco-Bandai
Shuhei Sugimoto VFX Design 2019 - Current # Toylogic
Kiyoto Suzuki Software Engineer 2018 - Current # Gree
Shinji Takei Game Director 2018 - Current # Konami
Iago Torres Game Director 2019 - Current # Gumi, Aiming
Chris Halordain Tsai Game Director 2020 - Current # Apple, Google Japan
]]> http://kyoto-report.wikidot.com/forum/t-12791832#post-4420540 Re: Nintendo EPD Developer Tracker http://kyoto-report.wikidot.com/forum/t-12791832/nintendo-epd-developer-tracker#post-4420540 Mon, 11 Nov 2019 14:26:52 +0000 Kyoto Ninja 1340009 Mitsutoshi Kodama just confirmed as Sound Designer from Capcom who joined Nintendo https://www.facebook.com/mitsutoshi.kodama.3 (MetalLord)

]]> http://kyoto-report.wikidot.com/forum/t-12791832#post-4419897 Re: Nintendo EPD Developer Tracker http://kyoto-report.wikidot.com/forum/t-12791832/nintendo-epd-developer-tracker#post-4419897 Sun, 10 Nov 2019 19:46:18 +0000 Kyoto Ninja 1340009 New Nintendo game planners that came from outside departments.

Hajime Nakao - Network Programmer
Taketoshi Akimaru - Server Programmer
Yoshiteru Fukuda - Hardware Developer
Naoya Yamamoto - Hardware Designer (controller)
Shintaro Jikumaru - Technical Support

]]> http://kyoto-report.wikidot.com/forum/t-12791832#post-4419880 Re: Nintendo EPD Developer Tracker http://kyoto-report.wikidot.com/forum/t-12791832/nintendo-epd-developer-tracker#post-4419880 Sun, 10 Nov 2019 19:27:27 +0000 Kyoto Ninja 1340009 Sho Inaba - Programmer credited on RFA, in section of Environment and Tools where the other 2 programmers are EPD. But no other confirmation.

]]> http://kyoto-report.wikidot.com/forum/t-12791832#post-4419870 Re: Nintendo EPD Developer Tracker http://kyoto-report.wikidot.com/forum/t-12791832/nintendo-epd-developer-tracker#post-4419870 Sun, 10 Nov 2019 19:10:15 +0000 Kyoto Ninja 1340009 Koh Nishide - Programmer credited on RFA and has a Linkedin with Nintendo and programmer listed as his background.

]]> http://kyoto-report.wikidot.com/forum/t-12791832#post-4419869 Re: Nintendo EPD Developer Tracker http://kyoto-report.wikidot.com/forum/t-12791832/nintendo-epd-developer-tracker#post-4419869 Sun, 10 Nov 2019 19:09:40 +0000 Kyoto Ninja 1340009 Atsushi Ueno - Programmer credited on RFA and has a programming thesis published where Nintendo is specifically linked as his association (https://www.formalise.org/sites/default/files/formalise2016hagihara.pdf)

]]> http://kyoto-report.wikidot.com/forum/t-12791832#post-4419106 Re: Nintendo R&D (Production Assistants) http://kyoto-report.wikidot.com/forum/t-12791832/nintendo-epd-developer-tracker#post-4419106 Sat, 09 Nov 2019 18:54:25 +0000 Kyoto Ninja 1340009 Assistants (MC, NST, 1UP, SRD, MON, MOX)

1-UP
Koji Aoyama
Hiroki Araya
Asami Inoue
Jun Ishioka
Mio Kikuchi
Hirotaka Tanikawa
Takayuki Yaeno

SRD
Kazuaki Morita
Toshihiko Nakago

DAG
Hiroaki Hirano
Daisuke Mizuno
Takayoshi Hiranai
Shinichi Kato
Yoriko Furuya
Jinni Yu
Takashi Ninomiya
Shusaku Chiba

]]> http://kyoto-report.wikidot.com/forum/t-12791832#post-4419098 Re: Nintendo R&D (Former Staff) http://kyoto-report.wikidot.com/forum/t-12791832/nintendo-epd-developer-tracker#post-4419098 Sat, 09 Nov 2019 18:23:56 +0000 Kyoto Ninja 1340009 Former Employees (Retired, Transferred).

Nintendo (C)
Masayuki Okada

Nintendo (B)
Satoru Okada, Gunpei Yokoi, Masayuki Uemura, Genyo Takeda, Takehiro Izushi

Nintendo (A)
Reginald Fils-Aime, Minoru Arakawa, Howard Lincoln, Brian Ullrich, Ken Lobb, Henry Sterchi

]]> http://kyoto-report.wikidot.com/forum/t-12791832#post-4419096 Re: Nintendo R&D (Production & Support) http://kyoto-report.wikidot.com/forum/t-12791832/nintendo-epd-developer-tracker#post-4419096 Sat, 09 Nov 2019 18:19:21 +0000 Kyoto Ninja 1340009 Assistants.

]]> http://kyoto-report.wikidot.com/forum/t-12791832#post-4419094 Nintendo R&D Tracker (Recent) http://kyoto-report.wikidot.com/forum/t-12791832/nintendo-epd-developer-tracker#post-4419094 Sat, 09 Nov 2019 18:18:18 +0000 Kyoto Ninja 1340009 Minami Akao Environment Design 2020 - Current # From Software Pedro Avelo Sound Composer 2018 - Current # Konami Junichi Iida Game Director 2020 - Current # Sumzap, Enish, Genki Hideki Kaneko Software Engineer 2019 - Current # College Recruit Minhee Kim Art Coordinator 2020 - Current # Game Freak, KLab Yukari Kitada Environment Design 2020 - Current # Mitsutoshi Kodama Sound EFX 2019 - Current # Tose, Capcom Xuewei Li Character Design 2019 - Current # Namco-Bandai Taiki Mitsuishi Environment Design 2020 - Current # Naoki Nishimura UI/UX Design 2019 - Current # Keigo Ogawa Software Engineer 2019 - Current # College Recruit Chihiro Okawa UI/UX Design 2019 - Current # Brother International Makoto Ono Planner 2017 - Current # Koichi Sato Sound EFX 2019 - Current # Tango, Konami Shuhei Sugimoto VFX Design 2019 - Current # Toylogic Kiyoto Suzuki Software Engineer 2018 - Current # Gree Shinji Takei Game Director 2018 - Current # Konami Iago Torres Game Director 2019 - Current # Gumi, Aiming ]]> http://kyoto-report.wikidot.com/forum/t-12791832#post-4419090 Re: Nintendo R&D (Internal Software Development) http://kyoto-report.wikidot.com/forum/t-12791832/nintendo-epd-developer-tracker#post-4419090 Sat, 09 Nov 2019 18:04:25 +0000 Kyoto Ninja 1340009 Director

  1. Yusuke Amano [✓] [-] [SPL2] ← [SPL1] ← [NSMB2]
  2. Hidemaro Fujibayashi [✓] [-] [TLZBOTW2] ← [TLZBOTW1] ← [TLZSKY]
  3. Shintaro Jikumaru [✓] [-] [ARM] ← [MK8] ← [MK7]
  4. Aya Kyogoku [✓] [-] [ACNH] ← [ACHHD] ← [ACNL]
  5. Hiroshi Matsunaga [✓] [-] [RFA] ← [SF0] ← [WFU]
  6. Kenta Motokura [✓] [-] [SMOD] ← [SM3DW] ← [SM3DL]
  7. Yosuke Oshino [✓] [-] [SMM2] ← [SMM3DS] ← [SMM1]
  8. Tsubasa Sakaguchi [✓] [-] [NLBO] ← [SPL1] ← [NINL]
  9. Hiromasa Shikata [✓] [-] [12SW] ← [TLZTFH] ← [TLZALBW]
  10. Ryutaro Takahashi [✓] [!] [MTMO] ← [TOML] ← [TOMC]
  11. Masami Yone [✓] [!] [RYT+] ← [RYTW] ← [RYTDS]

Planning

  1. Yusuke Akifusa (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N001 [SPL2] ← [SPL1] ← [NSMB2]
  2. Taketoshi Akimaru (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N002 [SPL2]
  3. Jordan Amaro (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N003 [SPL2]
  4. Shigeyuki Asuke (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N004 [SPL2] ← [SPL1] ← [NSLU]
  5. Hideki Fujii (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N005 [12SW] ← [NINL] ← [NSMW]
  6. Yohei Fujino (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N006 [TLZBOTW1] ← [PIK3] ← [TLZSKY]
  7. Yoshiteru Fukuda (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N007 [SPL2]
  8. Hideaki Fukuoka (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N008 [MRK8S]
  9. Takumi Hatakeyama (N-PLN) (?) ID-N009 [RYT+] ← [GA&WA] ← [RYTW]
  10. Yugo Hayashi (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N010 [ARMS] ← [SMRU] ← [STF0]
  11. Shigefumi Hino (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N011 [SMM2] ← [SMM1] ← [PIK3]
  12. Yutaka Hiramuki (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N012 [TLZBOTW1] ← [SPL2] ← [PIK3]
  13. Shinya Hiratake (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N013 [CTSW] ← [SMOD] ← [CTWU]
  14. Kotaro Hiromatsu (N-PLN) (?) ID-N014 [ACWA] ← [ACHHD]
  15. Tatsuya Hishida (N-PLN) (?) ID-N015 [SMM1] ← [TLZALBW] ← [NSMB2]
  16. Hiroaki Hishinuma (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N016 [SMOD] ← [SM3DW ← [SM3DL]
  17. Arisa Hosaka (N-PLN) (?) ID-N017 [SMM3DS] ← [SMM1] ← [SM3DW]
  18. Shinichi Ikematsu (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N018 [TLZBOTW1] ← [SPL2] ← [TLZTFH]
  19. Takayuki Ikkaku (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N019 [SMM2] ← [SPL2] ← [TLZBOTW1]
  20. Yoshihiko Ito (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N020 [SPL2]
  21. Yuichiro Ito (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N021 [RFAD] ← [MITP] ← [BRA3]
  22. Haruka Kakinuma (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N022 [SMOD] ← [12SW] ← [SM3DW]
  23. Ryutaro Kanno (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N023 [RFAD] ← [SPL2] ← [SPL1]
  24. Shinichi Kanno (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N024 [NLBO]
  25. Terumasa Kato (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N025 [SPL2] ← [SPL1]
  26. Keiko Kinoshita (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N026 [SPL2] ← [SPL1] ← [ACNL]
  27. Koji Kitagawa (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N027 [SPL2] ← [SPL1] ← [MK8]
  28. Shinji Kitahara (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N028 [RFAD] ← [RRDB] ← [ARGA]
  29. Yuka Kitahara (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N029 [CTSW] ← [SMOD] ← [SM3DW]
  30. Noriko Kitamura (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N030 [RFAD] ← [NBAR] ← [BRA3]
  31. Taku Matoba (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N031 [12SW] ← [PIK3] ← [NINL]
  32. Kenji Matsumoto (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N032 [SPL2]
  33. Ryuhei Matsuura (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N033 [MRK8S] ← [SFX0] ← [MRK8]
  34. Eiji Mukao (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N034 [SMM2] ← [TLZBOTW1] ← [NLSU]
  35. Eisaku Nakae (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N035 [SMM2] ← [TLZBOTW1] ← [NLSU]
  36. Hajime Nakao (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N036 [SMM2]
  37. Minoru Narita (N-PLN) (?) ID-N037 [TLZALBW] ← [PIK3] ← [NSMB2]
  38. Hok Wai Ng (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N038 [ARMS] ← [MRK8S] ← [MRK8]
  39. Hideaki Nishihara (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N039 [ARMS] ← [MRK8] ← [PIK3]
  40. Toshihiko Okamoto (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N040 [CTSW] ← [SMOD] ← [CRZL]
  41. Masashi Onishi (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N041 [NSMBDX] ← [ARMS]
  42. Hiroshi Sakasai (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N042 [TLZBOTW1] ← [TLZALBW] ← [NINL]
  43. Yuya Sato (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N043 [TLZBOTW1] ← [NSLU] ← [NSMB2]
  44. Kazuyoshi Sensui (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N044
  45. Kazunobu Shimizu (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N045 [12SW]
  46. Mari Shirakawa (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N046 [RFAD] ← [TLZBOTW1] ← [TLZTFH]
  47. Ryosuke Suzuki (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N047 [RFAD] ← [RRDB] ← [BBDXSP]
  48. Taiju Suzuki (N-PLN) (?) ID-N048 [ACWA] ← [PIK3] ← [NSMB2]
  49. Masataka Takemoto (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N049 [YOCW] ← [ACWA] ← [NSLU]
  50. Hiromu Takemura (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N050 [SPL2] ← [SPL1] ← [PIK3]
  51. Yasutaka Takeuchi (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N051 [TLZBOTW1] ← [SPL2] ← [TLZALBW]
  52. Hiroaki Tamura (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N052 [TLZBOTW1] ← [TLZSKY] ← [PTGU]
  53. Kentaro Tominaga (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N053 [TLZBOTW1] ← [TLZALBW] ← [TLZSKY]
  54. Kenta Usui (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N054 [YOCW] ← [SMM1] ← [YOWW]
  55. Yoichi Yamada (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N055 [TLZBOTW1] ← [TLZTFH] ← [TLZALBW]
  56. Naoya Yamamoto (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N056 [RFAD] ← [MITP] ← [NSLU]
  57. Yasuhisa Yamamura (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N057 [SMM2] ← [SMM3DS] ← [SMM1]
  58. Yusaku Yamanaka (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N058 [CTSW]
  59. Kazuhiro Yoshikawa (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N059 [MITP] ← [GA&WA]
  60. Tomoaki Yoshinobu (N-PLN) (✔) ID-N060 [TANKT] ← [SFX0] ← [NSLU]

Programmer

  1. Atsushi Asakura (N-PRG) (✔) ID-N061 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
  2. Corey Bunnell (N-PRG) (✔) ID-N062 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (DLC)
  3. Takuhiro Dohta (N-PRG) (✔) ID-N063 Ring Fit Adventure
  4. Yasusi Ebisawa (N-PRG) (✔) ID-N064 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
  5. Naoki Fukuda (N-PRG) (✔) ID-N065 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (DLC)
  6. Hiroki Hamaue (N-PRG) (✔) ID-N066 Ring Fit Adventure
  7. Sohei Hirai (N-PRG) (✔) ID-N067 Ring Fit Adventure
  8. Sho Inaba (N-PRG) (✔) ID-N068 Ring Fit Adventure
  9. Hitoshi Kanetani (N-PRG) (✔) ID-N069 Ring Fit Adventure
  10. Toyoki Kataoka (N-PRG) (✔) ID-N070 Ring Fit Adventure
  11. Arisa Kitani (N-PRG) (✔) ID-N071 Ring Fit Adventure
  12. Shigetoshi Kitayama (N-PRG) (✔) ID-N072 Ring Fit Adventure
  13. Ryota Maruko (N-PRG) (✔) ID-N073 Ring Fit Adventure
  14. Koh Nishide (N-PRG) (✔) ID-N074 Ring Fit Adventure
  15. Takanori Nishino (N-PRG) (✔) ID-N075 Ring Fit Adventure
  16. Takuma Oiso (N-PRG) (✔) ID-N076 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
  17. Yuichiro Okamura (N-PRG) (✔) ID-N077 Ring Fit Adventure
  18. Takahiro Okuda (N-PRG) (✔) ID-N078 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (DLC)
  19. Yoji Okudera (N-PRG) (✔) ID-N079 Ring Fit Adventure
  20. Masato Orishige (N-PRG) (✔) ID-N080 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (DLC)
  21. Tomohisa Saito (N-PRG) (✔) ID-N081 Ring Fit Adventure
  22. Tadashi Sakamoto (N-PRG) (✔) ID-N082 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (DLC)
  23. Yoshihiko Sakuraba (N-PRG) (✔) ID-N083 Super Mario Odyssey
  24. Haruki Sato (N-PRG) (✔) ID-N084 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (DLC)
  25. Katsuhisa Sato (N-PRG) (✔) ID-N085 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
  26. Yoshiyuki Sawada (N-PRG) (✔) ID-N086 Ring Fit Adventure
  27. Hisashi Sekoguchi (N-PRG) (✔) ID-N087 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
  28. Eiichi Shirakawa (N-PRG) (✔) ID-N088 Ring Fit Adventure
  29. Kazuya Sumaki (N-PRG) (✔) ID-N089 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
  30. Hiroki Taguchi (N-PRG) (✔) ID-N090 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (DLC)
  31. Naoto Takahashi (N-PRG) (✔) ID-N091 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (DLC)
  32. Takahiro Takayama (N-PRG) (✔) ID-N092 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
  33. Nao Ueda (N-PRG) (✔) ID-N093 Ring Fit Adventure
  34. Haruya Uematsu (N-PRG) (✔) ID-N094 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (DLC)
  35. Atsushi Ueno (N-PRG) (✔) ID-N095 Ring Fit Adventure
  36. Masanori Unno (N-PRG) (✔) ID-N096 Ring Fit Adventure
  37. Kazuhiro Wabe (N-PRG) (✔) ID-N097 Ring Fit Adventure
  38. Kota Wada (N-PRG) (✔) ID-N098 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (DLC)
  39. Masaki Wada (N-PRG) (✔) ID-N099 Ring Fit Adventure
  40. Shinya Yano (N-PRG) (✔) ID-N100 Ring Fit Adventure
  41. Takashi Yoneyama (N-PRG) (✔) ID-N101 Ring Fit Adventure

CG Design

  1. Masayuki Kawakita [✓] [RFA] ← [TLZSS] ← [SM3DL]
  2. Yoshifumi Masaki [✓] [NLBO] ← [ACHHD]
  3. Ryo Tanaka [✓] [12SW] ← [PIK3]
  4. Takeshi Tateishi [✓] [NLBO] ← [SPL2]

Sound

  1. Shiho Fujii (N)(✓) [RFA] ← [SMOD] ← [MK8]
  2. Asuka Hayazaki (N)(✓) [RFA] ← [MK8DX] ← [SMM1]
  3. Mitsutoshi Kodama (N)(✓) [RFA]
  4. Maasa Miyoshi (N)(✓) [RFA] ← [12SW] ← [MTMO]
  5. Yumi Takahashi (N)(✓) [NLBO] ← [MITP] ← [RYT+]
  6. Shinji Ushiroda (N)(✓) [RFA] ← [MITP] ← [RYT+]
]]> http://kyoto-report.wikidot.com/forum/t-12791832#post-4419089 Nintendo R&D Development Overview http://kyoto-report.wikidot.com/forum/t-12791832/nintendo-epd-developer-tracker#post-4419089 Sat, 09 Nov 2019 18:01:05 +0000 Kyoto Ninja 1340009 Nintendo Co., Ltd:

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