NINTENDO
Hardware & System
Kart & Gate Development Team
SDK Development Team
Nintendo European Research and Development
Development Coordinator
Yuji Ichijo
UI Art
Tomomi Mashiko
Go Fukada
Masayuki Okada
Illustration
Yu Yamamoto
Package Design
Taichiro Takeo
Junichi Usui
Mario Kart Supervisors
Kosuke Yabuki
Masaaki Ishikawa
Character Supervisors
Yoshinori Oda
Akiko Yamaguchi
Motoaki Fukuda
Yu Yamamoto
Tsuyoshi Watanabe
Music Composition
Ryo Nagamatsu
Audio Supervisor
Kenta Nagata
Technical Support
Takehiro Oyama
Producers
Yosuke Tamori
Hiroshi Matsunaga
Toyokazu Nonaka
General Producer
Shinya Takahashi
Executive Producer
Shuntaro Furukawa
Developer interview (in Spanish)
elpais .com/cultura/2020/10/16/1up/1602840312_235754 .html
"Yuji Ichijo, miembro del equipo de producción en Nintendo EPD Nº2"
"Yosuke Tamori, responsable de producción en Nintendo EPD Nº4 y responsable de comunicación para Nintendo Labo"
Translation:
"Yuji Ichijo, member of the production team at Nintendo EPD No. 2"
"Yosuke Tamori, production manager at Nintendo EPD Nº4 and communication manager for Nintendo Labo"
Great find on that interview!
Very interesting how the production groups here jointly worked together with Velan.
Production Group No. 02 (Nonaka, Ichijo)
Production Group No. 04 (Tamori, Matsunaga)
Production Group No. 09 (Kabuki, Ishikawa, Nagata?) (Supervision)
EPD UI Art team and EPD Music Group
There's another important Nintendo member here; Hiroki Ikuta from Nintendo's technology team? (PTD) who seems to be doing press on behalf of the
"NINTENDO
Hardware & System
Kart & Gate Development Team
SDK Development Team"
mentioned in the credits.
The previous Velan bit mentioned Nintendo's hardware team was crucial in developing the technology. I think Hiroki Ikuta was the lead on the "Kart and Gate Development Team" which prototyped and developed the physical kart and track units.
Did Kawamoto also hand over the position of manager and producer to the next person, Tamori? What a rapid change of generations..
Edouard Gomez (Lead Software Engineer at NERD)
"Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit: Kart steering control and video streaming"
https://www.linkedin.com/in/edouardgomez
Erik Hill (Software Engineer at NTD, 2015-2019)
"Worked in innovation and dev supported. Started and led numerous project. Some grew into official projects (such as Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit) or influenced other efforts (such as Ring Fit Adventure)."
From regular artist to group manager,weird..
Matsunaga was also mentioned in the production credits. Maybe he's the real new Manager since at least he has been assistant producer and directore before - and Tamori is the co-manager?
But then not only would have Kawamoto been replaced, but also Takayuki Shimamura (co-producer and assistant manager?)
Maybe this is a one off situation (or EPD4 was split?). Probably too soon to speculate.