Risa Tabata
田端里沙
Born
Osaka, Japan
Alma materOsaka University of Foreign Studies
Occupation(s)Video game producer, Production coordinator
Years active2001-present
EmployerNintendo
Notable workMetroid Prime
Donkey Kong Country
Paper Mario

Risa Tabata (Japanese: 田端里沙, Hepburn: Tabata Risa) is a Japanese video game assistant producer and production coordinator working at Nintendo.

Career

Tabata was born in Osaka and graduated from Osaka University of Foreign Studies as a liberal arts student majoring in Chinese.[1] After graduating, she applied to Nintendo with the intent of doing clerical work at the company, influenced by her experience of playing Famicom games with her younger brother back in middle school. Upon being hired in April 2001, Tabata would instead find herself as part of Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development, despite lacking any knowledge of game design at the time, and immediately assigned to be the production coordinator for Metroid Prime, assisting with communication between the Japanese Nintendo team and the Austin, Texas-based Retro Studios.[2][3]

Since then, Tabata has continued to work on externally-developed Nintendo projects under the purview of producer Kensuke Tanabe, going on to become assistant producer and production manager for subsequent Metroid Prime games, as well as various other Nintendo titles.[4][5]

Works

Year Game Credit(s)
2002 Metroid Prime Coordinator
2004 Metroid Prime 2: Echoes Assistant producer, coordinator
WarioWare: Touched! Voice acting
2005 Tottoko Hamtaro Nazonazo Q: Kumonoue no? Jou Supervisor
2007 Metroid Prime 3: Corruption Assistant producer, coordinator
2008 Captain Rainbow Assistant producer
2009 New Play Control! Metroid Prime Assistant producer, coordinator
PictureBook Games: Pop-Up Pursuit Assistant producer
Punch-Out!!
New Play Control! Chibi-Robo! Coordinator
Metroid Prime: Trilogy Assistant producer, coordinator
PictureBook Games: The Royal Bluff Assistant producer
Eco Shooter: Plant 530 Coordinator
2010 Donkey Kong Country Returns Assistant producer
Snowpack Park Coordinator
2011 Sakura Samurai: Art of the Sword
2012 Dillon's Rolling Western Coordinator, supervisor
2013 Game & Wario Directing support, game design
Nintendoji Assistant producer
Dillon's Rolling Western: The Last Ranger Coordinator, supervisor
Chibi-Robo! Photo Finder Assistant producer
2014 Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
2015 Chibi-Robo! Zip Lash Assistant producer, chief director
2016 Paper Mario: Color Splash Assistant producer
2018 Dillon's Dead-Heat Breakers Assistant producer, coordinator
2020 Paper Mario: The Origami King Assistant producer
2022 Mario Strikers: Battle League Project management
2023 Metroid Prime Remastered Assistant producer
WarioWare: Move It! Project management
2024 Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Producer

References

  1. ^ Klausing, Svenja (2018-05-24). "Dillon's Dead-Heat Breakers im Test: Schnelle Kämpfe und spannende Rennen". PC Games (in German). Archived from the original on 2022-02-22. Retrieved 2022-02-22.
  2. ^ "社長が訊く: 『メトロイドプライム3 コラプション』" (in Japanese). 任天堂株式会社. February 29, 2008. Archived from the original on July 13, 2015. Retrieved July 21, 2015.
  3. ^ R, Sami. "Iwata Asks: Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (English Translation)". Metroid Database. Retrieved June 20, 2024.((cite web)): CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ^ Metroid Prime Trilogy: Developer's Voice, archived from the original on 2022-02-22, retrieved 2022-02-22
  5. ^ Nutt, Christian (2015-10-13). "'Nintendo has its own way' - How it makes games and works with externa". Game Developer. Archived from the original on 2022-02-22. Retrieved 2022-02-22.


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