Risa Tabata

Risa Tabata
田端里沙
Born	Osaka, Japan
Alma mater	Osaka University of Foreign Studies
Occupation(s)	Video game producer, Production coordinator
Years active	2001-present
Employer	Nintendo
Notable work	Metroid 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
	Luigi's Mansion 2 HD	Project management
2025	Donkey Kong Country Returns HD	Original game supervisor

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.
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.