Staff of Pokémon XD

This is a list of staff members who worked on the game Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness for the Nintendo GameCube, per the game's credits. It was published by Nintendo and developed by Genius Sonority.

Staff

Notice: The staff list is from the English version.

Director

• Manabu Yamana

Director of Development

• Yoshiaki Iwasawa

Art Director

• Hiromoto-SIN-ichi

Scenario Written By

• Kazunori Orio

Music Director

• Tsukasa Tawada

Game Design

• Sui Hotate
• Ryota Aomi
• Kouji Oono
• Koichi Iwata
• Kuniko Kobashi
• Chiharu Sugaya

Scenario Writing Assistants

• Tetsuya Kawaskai
• Naomi Fukuoka

Scenario Edited By

• Sayaka Yamazaki

Scenes Edited By

• Retsuji Nomoto

System Design

• Masayuki Kawamoto

Programming Chiefs

• Teruhito Yamaki
• Akihiro Yoshida

System Programming

• Michael Tedder
• Dimitrios Chamouratidis
• Mitsunobu Koyama

Application Programming

• Mariko Akagi
• Tomoharu Nishi
• Yasuhiro Shimura
• Yasushi Okita
• Yasunobu Ihara
• Yoshikazu Kita
• Junichi Matsushita

Development Support Programming

• Akira Fukushima
• Yutaka Okoshi
• Ryo Shimizu

Script Programming

• Ryohei Endo
• Masayoshi Tahara
• Yatsuya Nanaumi
• Satoshi Ogata
• Yuichi Hujioka
• Koji Kariya
• Takashi Taneshima
• Kazuya Azuma

Art Chiefs

• Jamie Turner
• Motokazu Sakai
• Hiroyuki Ikeda
• Takanori Wada

Character Modeling

• Chika Hotani
• Kazuhiro Saito

Character Motion Design

• Rinko Yagihashi
• Rui Guerreriro

3-D Map Design

• Jyu Ikeda
• Kenji Kawashima
• Nobuhito Yamamoto
• Yasumi Tamura

Additional 3-D Map Design

• Koji Eto
• Eiji Senke
• Ryuzou Kishi
• Yoshio Kamikubo
• Hideaki Shibayama

Special Effects Art

• Akira Fukumoto
• Maiko Susuki

2-D CG Art

• Maki Wada

Pokémon 3-D Modeling Direction

• Kei Hoshiba

Lead Pokémon 3-D Modeling

• Kazuo Yazawa

Pokémon 3-D Modeling

• Takeshi Iizuka
• Ken Ikuji
• Atsuko Ujiie
• Satomi Kokubo
• Keita Komatsu
• Hiromichi Sugiyama
• Jungo Suzuki
• Katsura Tabata
• Shinichi Yoshikawa
• Kiyoshi Utsunomiya
• Misaki Nakaoka
• Yosuke Yamashita
• Masahiro Abeki
• Yuji Kawarada
• Yuichi Sawayama
• Nachi Sugiyama
• Yoshiyuki Tagawa
• Mikio Mejo
• Masaya Akiyama
• Kumiko Oka
• Toshiyuki Honda
• Kiyotaka Hirata
• So Yoshimura
• Kyoko Koizumi

Pokémon 3-D Modeling Managers

• Yasunori Yanagisawa
• Masamichi Anazawa

Sound Effects

• Masataka Saito

Sound Manager

• Natsuko Kobayashi

Battle Data Design

• Masahiro Okuda
• Masato Kise
• Tsuyoshi Koumura
• Kouji Kobayashi
• Takeshi Saigou
• Katsuhiro Nii
• Etsuko Fukushima
• Osamu Fujita
• Shunsuke Kohori
• Norihide Okamura
• Takahiro Ohnishi

English Localization

• Seth McMahill
• Keisuke Tominaga

Text Translated By

• Nob Ogasawara

Text Edited by

• Teresa Lillygren

NOA Product Testing

• Thomas Hetzog
• Melvin Forrest
• Mika Kurosawa
• Tomoko Mikami

Addiction Testing

• NCL SUPER MARIO CLUB

Pokémon Games Designed By

• Satoshi Tajiri
• Junichi Masuda

Pokémon Characters Designed By

• Ken Sugimori
• Motofumi Fujiwara
• Hironobu Yoshida
• Satoshi Ohta
• Takao Unno
• Kanako Eo
• Asuka Iwashita
• Aimi Tomita
• Atsuko Nishida
• Muneo Saitō
• Rena Yoshikawa
• Jun Okutani

Pokémon Advisors

• Shigeki Morimoto
• Kouji Nishino
• Tetsuya Watanabe
• Hisashi Sogabe

Pokémon Supervisors

• Yuuri Sakurai
• Kazuyuki Terada
• Hiroki Enomoto
• Akihito Tamura

Pokémon Coordinators

• Hitoshi Yamagami
• Tatsuya Hishida
• Kazuyuki Gofuku
• Takao Nakano
• Shusaku Egami

Based on a Concept By

• Akihiko Miura

Technical Support

• Toru Inage
• Satoshi Mitsuhara

Special Thanks To

• Mari Shirakawa
• Hiro Nakamura
• Kenjiro Ito
• Michiko Takizawa
• Makiko Takada
• Osamu Suzuki
• Takanao Kondo
• Kenichi Arai
• Atsushi Sugimoto
• Tomoko Yoshimura
• Tomotaka Komura
• Maya Nakamura
• Tatsumi Kimishima
• Mike Fukuda
• Yoshinobu Mantani
• Gail Tilden
• Melinda Porter
• Nicola Wright
• Randy Shoemake
• Motoyasu Tojima
• Chihiro Kobayashi
• Minako Higashi
• Kazuko Goushi
• Sachiko Kubokawa
• Yuki Otsuka
• Shiori Hirashima
• Ysuyoshi Tokunaga

Very Special Thanks To

• Creatures Inc.
• MANGA★FORCE
• e-plus digital works

Producers

• Gakuji Nomoto
• Hiroyuki Jinnai
• Hiroaki Tsuru

Executive Producer

• Satoru Iwata
• Tsunekazu Ishihara

Staff of the Pokémon games and animated series

Core series Red and Green • Blue (JP) • Red and Blue • Yellow • Gold and Silver • Crystal Ruby and Sapphire • FireRed and LeafGreen • Emerald • Diamond and Pearl • Platinum HeartGold and SoulSilver • Black and White • Black 2 and White 2 • X and Y Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire • Sun and Moon • Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee! • Sword and Shield • Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl Legends: Arceus • Scarlet and Violet • The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero Side games Stadium (JP) • Stadium (English) • Stadium 2 • Colosseum • XD Box RS • Battle Revolution • Ranch • Dream Radar Spin-off games Hey You, Pikachu! • Channel • PokéPark Wii • PokéPark 2 Trading Card Game • Trading Card Game 2: The Invasion of Team GR! • TCG Pocket Snap • New Snap • Pinball • Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire Puzzle League • Puzzle Challenge • Dash • Trozei! • Battle Trozei • Tetris MD: Red and Blue Rescue Team • MD: Explorers of Time and Darkness MD: Explorers of Sky • MD (WiiWare) • MD: Gates to Infinity • Super MD • MD: Rescue Team DX Masters Arena • Team Turbo Ranger • Ranger: Shadows of Almia • Ranger: Guardian Signs Rumble • Rumble Blast • Rumble U • Rumble World • Rumble Rush Learn with Pokémon: Typing Adventure • Pokédex 3D (Pro) • Conquest The Thieves and the 1000 Pokémon • Art Academy Detective Pikachu (Birth of a New Duo) • Detective Pikachu Returns Shuffle • Pokkén Tournament (DX) • Picross (GBC) • Picross (3DS) Duel • Magikarp Jump • Quest • Masters (EX) • Smile • Café Mix • Sleep Animated series Staff of the Pokémon animated series

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