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Courtesy of Kyoto Report, here is a brief analysis of Breath of the Wild development team.
Lead Staff
Director
Hidemaro Fujibayashi (Director of Skyward Sword)
Assistant Director
Daiki Iwamoto (Director of Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks)
Lead Planner
Kentaro Tominaga (A Link Between Worlds and Skyward Sword)
Program Director
Takuhiro Dohta (Wind Waker HD and Nintendo Land)
Art Director
Satoru Takizawa (Wind Waker, Ocarina of Time)
Sound Director
Hajime Wakai (Skyward Sword)
Music Composer
Manaka Kataoka (Animal Crossing: New Leaf)
Yasuaki Iwata (Mario Kart 8)
Script
Akihito Toda (Pokemon Ranger, Super Smash Bros. 3DS)
Assistant Producer
Makoto Miiyanaga (Director of Link's Crossbow Training)
Producer
Eiji Aonuma
General Producer
Shinya Takahashi (current R&D Manager)
Shigeru Miyamoto (previous R&D Manager)
Developer:
Nintendo Co., Ltd. (EPD Production Group No. 3?)
Assistant: (Listed in order game credits them)
SRD Co., Ltd. (Nintendo funded programming team located in Nintendo's Kyoto Development Center, assisted programming)
Monolith Software Inc. (assisted over-world topography / additional graphic art)
Cooperation:
Anima Inc.
AnimationCafe INC.
AVANT Inc. (additional graphic art)
charabans,inc.
Digital Environment Creations Inc.
Digital Frontier Inc. (additional graphic art)
ENIGMAX? Co., Ltd.
GART 3DCG STUDIO Inc.
Graphinica, Inc.
IMAGICA DIGITALSCAPE Co.,Ltd. / BAUHAUS ENTERTAINMENT (additional graphic art)
ModelingCafe INC.
NAC Inc.
Q'tron,Inc.
quack-luck Inc.
SEVEN DREAMS INC.
TOSE CO., LTD.
Twenty Eleven Co.Ltd. (additional graphic art)
WITCHCRAFT Inc.
Mario Club Co., Ltd.
DIGITAL Hearts Co.,Ltd.
Kenproduction Co., Ltd.
ARTSVISION Co.,Ltd.
Sound Racer Ltd. (additional sound design)
Ventuno Inc. (additional sound design)
Face Music
Formosa Group
KiteTeam a Keywords Studio
SIDE UK
Keywords Studios
- Notes -
* Hiromasa Shikata nor Shiro Mouri of the 2D Zelda team contributed to this game
* Near 400 names credited. Not including entire companies.
* 100+ Nintendo in-house staff
* 100~ SRD, Monolith, Mario Club Nintendo of America, Nintendo of Europe
* 100+ Outsource companies
* Nintendo and Platinum Games have adopted similar art outsourcing strategies.