Drag x Drive made by just 20 devs, includes Hisashi Nogami of Animal Crossing and Splatoon fame
Following the release of Drag x Drive, fans are diving into the game’s credits, which includes Hisashi Nogami – who previously worked on Animal Crossing and Splatoon.
Drag x Drive is one of Nintendo’s smaller teams in recent years. Looking at the core development team, it looks like there were just twenty people involved.
The full lineup is as follows:
- Director/program director: Yoshinori Konishi
- Player Programming: Hirorki Hamaue
- UI Programming: Masato Orishige
- Object Programming: Shoya Masuji
- Sound Programming: Yoshita Imakiire
- VFX Programming: Nao Ueda
- Art Director/Character Design: Takahisa Ikejiro
- Field Design: Yuriko Suzuki, Mayuko Nakamura
- UI Design: Takeru Fukada
- VFX Design: Suzuka Tomiishi
- Sound Design: Isami Yoshida
- Music: Sayako Doi
- Piepeline Engineering: Hiroki Ishida, Hiroki Takeda
- QA Engineering: Takahiro Matsuda
- Field Collision: Yuta Yamashita
- Coordinator: Daij Imai
- Producer: Hisashi Nogami
- General Producer: Shinya Takahashi
- Executive Producer: Shuntaro Furukawa
Hisashi Nogami is one of the more notable names here. Nogami was the director on a few different Animal Crossing titles before going on to handle the Splatoon series as producer. Drag x Drive is actually the first game in over a decade that Nogami is credited for something outside of those two franchises.
Drag x Drive just launched on Nintendo Switch 2 yesterday. Catch up on the initial reviews here.
