Staff of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl

Pokémon Diamond and Pearl was published by Nintendo and developed by Game Freak and Creatures, Inc.

All names in Western order.

Director

• Jun'ichi Masuda

Art director

• Ken Sugimori

Battle director

• Shigeki Morimoto

Programming lead

• Tetsuya Watanabe

Battle system programming

• Hisashi Sogabe

Field system programming

• Sōsuke Tamada

Communication system programming

• Akito Mori

Programming

• Matsuda Yoshinori
• Nakamura Hiroyuki
• Satoshi Nohara
• Miyuki Iwasawa
• Daisuke Gotō
• Katsumi Ōno
• Keita Kagaya
• Masao Taya
• Tomomichi Ōta
• Nozomu Saitō
• Tomoya Takahashi
• Satoshi Mitsuhara

Graphics lead

• Takao Unno

Pokémon design & graphic design

• Ken Sugimori
• Motofumi Fujiwara
• Hironobu Yoshida
• Kenkichi Toyama
• Hiroyuki Yagi
• Yūsuke Ōmura
• Takao Unno
• Satoshi Ōta
• Kanako Eo
• Hiroki Fuchino
• Emi Yoshida
• Hiroyuki Gotō

Pokémon design

• Nishida Atsuko

Graphic design

• Kei Hoshiba

Music lead

• Gō Ichinose

Music

• Hitomi Satō
• Jun'ichi Masuda

Sound effects

• Satoshi Nohara

Pokémon voices

• Gō Ichinose

Game design director

• Shigeru Ōmori

Game design

• Kōji Nishino
• Tetsuji Ōta
• Takeshi Kawachimaru
• Tadashi Takahashi
• Suguru Nakatsui
• Kenji Matsushima
• Hitomi Satō
• Teruyuki Shimoyamada
• Akihito Tomisawa
• Hiro Nakamura

Scenario plot

• Jun'ichi Masuda
• Kōji Nishino
• Toshinobu Matsumiya
• Shigeru Ōmori

Scenario

• Toshinobu Matsumiya
• Akihito Tomisawa
• Hitomi Satō
• Suguru Nakatsui

Map design

• Tadashi Takahashi
• Shigeru Ōmori
• Hiro Nakamura
• Teruyuki Shimoyamada
• Suguru Nakatsui
• Akihito Tomisawa
• Kōji Nishino

Pokédex text

• Kenji Matsushima

Parameter setting

• Kōji Nishino
• Teruyuki Shimoyamada
• Tetsuji Ōta
• Shigeki Morimoto

Battle Tower data

• Osamu Fujita
• Yoshihito Tsuji
• Motoki Nakajima
• Keisuke Fukushima
• Takeshi Saigō
• Kōji Kobayashi
• Etsuko Fukushima
• Tetsuji Ōta

Script setting

• Satoshi Nohara
• Miyuki Iwasawa
• Tomomichi Ōta
• Sōsuke Tamada

Environment & tools programming

• Hisashi Sogabe
• Hiroyuki Nakamura
• Miyuki Iwasawa
• Sōsuke Tamada
• Masao Taya

Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection server system director

• Mikihiro Ishikawa

Server system programming

• Daisuke Nakamura
• Yūki Hayashi
• Shigetoshi Kitayama

Programming support

• Kazuki Yoshihara

Debug play

• Akira Yano
• Super Mario Club

Special thanks

• Kenji Tominaga
• Masafumi Saitō
• Lee Hyon Jyon (?)
• Teiko Sasaki
• Sachiko Hamano
• Kenjirō Itō
• Yoshio Tajiri
• Saya Tsuruta
• Takenori Ōta
• Yūichirō Mori
• Emi Endō
• Tomotaka Komura
• Susumu Fukunaga
• Michiko Takizawa
• Yumi Hoshi
• Norihide Okamura
• Takanao Kondō
• Teruki Murakawa
• Sōichi Yamamoto
• Hiroshi Akune
• Masami Tanaka
• Ken'ichi Arai
• Jirō Koga
• Shunsuke Kohori
• Hiroyuki Uesugi
• Kimiko Nakamichi
• Akira Kinashi
• Takao Nakano

Information management

• Hiromi Sagawa
• Naoko Yanase
• Yūri Sakurai

Artwork

• Sachiko Nakamichi
• Yasuko Takahashi
• Akiko Hirono
• Shizuka Numata
• Kiyomi Oe
• Ken'ichi Koga
• Sakae Kimura

Map image illustration

• Midori Harada

Coordinators

• Egami Shūsaku
• Kaori Andō
• Kazuki Yoshihara

Producers

• Hiroyuki Jinnai
• Gakuji Nomoto
• Hitoshi Yamagami
• Hiroaki Tsuru

Executive producers

• Satoshi Tajiri
• Satoru Iwata
• Tsunekazu Ishihara