Staff of Pokémon Emerald

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

All names in Western order.

Director

• Shigeki Morimoto

Art director

• Ken Sugimori

World director

• Jun'ichi Masuda

Programming lead

• Hisashi Sogabe

Graphics lead

• Motofumi Fujiwara

Programming

• Hisashi Sogabe
• Tomomichi Ōta
• Nozomu Saitō
• Akito Mori
• Hiroyuki Nakamura
• Masao Taya
• Satoshi Nohara
• Miyuki Iwasawa
• Yoshinori Matsuda
• Keita Kagaya
• Tetsuya Watanabe
• Sōsuke Tamada
• Takenori Ōta

Graphic design

• Motofumi Fujiwara
• Satoshi Ōta
• Kenkichi Toyama
• Asuka Iwashita
• Takao Unno
• Ken Sugimori
• Hironobu Yoshida
• Aimi Tomita
• Kanako Eo

Music

• Gō Ichinose
• Jun'ichi Masuda
• Morikazu Aoki
• Hitomi Satō

Sound effects & Pokémon voices

• Gō Ichinose
• Morikazu Aoki

Game design

• Shigeki Morimoto
• Teruyuki Shimoyamada
• Takeshi Kawachimaru
• Akihito Tomisawa
• Suguru Nakatsui
• Tetsuji Ōta
• Hitomi Satō
• Jun'ichi Masuda
• Kōji Nishino
• Shigeru Ōmori
• Tadashi Takahashi

Scenario plot

• Akihito Tomisawa
• Jun'ichi Masuda
• Kōji Nishino

Scenario

• Akihito Tomisawa
• Hitomi Satō
• Toshinobu Matsumiya

Script

• Tomomichi Ōta
• Satoshi Nohara

Map design

• Suguru Nakatsui
• Teruyuki Shimoyamada
• Shigeru Ōmori
• Tetsuji Ōta

Battle Frontier data

• Tetsuji Ōta

Parameter-setting

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

Pokédex text

• Kenji Matsushima

Environment & tools programming

• Hisashi Sogabe
• Sōsuke Tamada
• Hiroyuki Nakamura
• Akito Mori

Pokémon design

Programming support

• Satoshi Mitsuhara
• Daisuke Hoshino

Debug play

• Super Mario Club

Package & manual illustration

• Ken Sugimori

Special thanks

• Kenji Tominaga
• Hiroki Enomoto
• Hiroki Nakamura
• Hiroyuki Uesugi
• Teruki Murakawa
• Kazuya Suyama
• Kenjirō Itō
• Michiko Takizawa
• Makiko Takada
• Takanao Kondō
• Rui Kawaguchi
• Takahiro Ōnishi
• Norihide Okamura
• Shunsuke Kohori

Braille supervision

• Japan Braille Library (日本点字図書館)

Information management

• Kazuyuki Terada
• Yūri Sakurai
• Yumi Funasaka
• Naoko Yanase

Artwork

• Sachiko Nakamichi
• Fujiko Nomura
• Hideyuki Nakajima
• Hidenori Saeki
• Yōko Watanabe
• Sakae Kimura
• Chiaki Shinkai

Coordinators

• Kazuki Yoshihara
• Akira Kinashi
• Retsuji Nomoto

Function managers

• Azusa Tajima
• Shūsaku Egami

Producers

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

Executive director

• Satoshi Tajiri

Executive producers

• Satoru Iwata
• Tsunekazu Ishihara