Risa Tabata

Risa Tabata is a video game producer and director at Nintendo. She was a co-producer of Paper Mario: Color Splash and director of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. She was assistant producer on the Metroid Prime trilogy.

Risa Tabata
Born
Osaka
OccupationVideo game producer at Nintendo

Early life

Risa Tabata was born in Osaka and graduated from Osaka University.[1]

Career

Risa Tabata was an assistant producer on the Metroid Prime trilogy and said using the Wii Remote game play is intuitive.[2]

She was a co-producer of Paper Mario: Color Splash.[3] In contrast to a traditional Mario game, they focused on humor to do the stupidest, craziest things possible.[4]

She was director for Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze, discussing the addition of Dixie as a partner character with extra lift when her ponytail whips around.[5]

As assistant producer for Chibi-Robo! Zip Lash, she talked about development of the whip and swing mechanic.[6] She said they can move forward with a game if they can see the fun element. She has worked on many other games.[7]

References
  1. Klausing, Svenja (2018-05-24). "Dillon's Dead-Heat Breakers im Test: Schnelle Kämpfe und spannende Rennen". PC Games (in German). Retrieved 2022-02-22.
  2. Metroid Prime Trilogy: Developer's Voice, retrieved 2022-02-22
  3. Parish, Jeremy (2016-09-05). "A Conversation With Paper Mario: Color Splash Producer Risa Tabata". USgamer. Retrieved 2022-02-22.
  4. "Paper Mario: Color Splash Embraces Mario's Sillier Side". GameSpot. Retrieved 2022-02-22.
  5. Parish, Jeremy (2013-06-27). "Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze Full E3 Interview". USgamer. Retrieved 2022-02-22.
  6. Parish, Jeremy (2015-09-30). "Lashing Out: A Chibi-Robo Zip Lash Q&A". USgamer. Retrieved 2022-02-22.
  7. NuttBloggerOctober 13, Christian; 2015 (2015-10-13). "'Nintendo has its own way' - How it makes games and works with externa". Game Developer. Retrieved 2022-02-22.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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