Staff of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl

This is a list of staff members who worked on the fourth generation games Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Versions for the Nintendo DS, per the game's credits. It was published by Nintendo and developed by Game Freak and Creatures, Inc. All names are given in Western order.

Staff list

Director

Art Director

Battle Director

Program Leader

  • Tetsuya Watanabe

Battle System Programmer

  • Hisashi Sogabe

Field System Programmer

  • Sousuke Tamada

Communication System Programmer

  • Akito Mori

Programmers

  • Yoshinori Matsuda
  • Keita Kagaya
  • Hiroyuki Nakamura
  • Masao Taya
  • Satoshi Nohara
  • Tomomichi Ohta
  • Miyuki Iwasawa
  • Nozomu Saito
  • Daisuke Goto
  • Tomoya Takahashi
  • Katsumi Ono
  • Satoshi Mitsuhara

Graphic Leader

  • Takao Unno

Pokémon Designers & Graphic Designers

Pokémon Designer

  • Atsuko Nishida

Graphic Designer

  • Kei Hoshiba

Music Leader

Music Composition

Sound Effects

  • Satoshi Nohara

Pokémon Voices

  • Go Ichinose

Game Design Leader

  • Shigeru Ohmori

Game Designers

  • Kouji Nishino
  • Kenji Matsushima
  • Tetsuji Ohta
  • Hitomi Sato
  • Takeshi Kawachimaru
  • Teruyuki Shimoyamada
  • Tadashi Takahashi
  • Akihito Tomisawa
  • Suguru Nakatsui
  • Hiro Nakamura

Plot Scenario

Game Scenario

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

Map Designers

  • Tadashi Takahashi
  • Suguru Nakatsui
  • Shigeru Ohmori
  • Akihito Tomisawa
  • Hiro Nakamura
  • Kouji Nishino
  • Teruyuki Shimoyamada

Pokédex Text

  • Kenji Matsushima

Parametric Design

Battle Tower Data

  • Osamu Fujita
  • Takeshi Saigo
  • Yoshihito Tsuji
  • Kouji Kobayashi
  • Motoki Nakajima
  • Etsuko Fukushima
  • Keisuke Fukushima
  • Tetsuji Ohta

Script Designers

  • Satoshi Nohara
  • Tomomichi Ohta
  • Miyuki Iwasawa
  • Sousuke Tamada

Environment & Tool Programmers

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

Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection

Server System Director

  • Mikihiro Ishikawa

Server System Programmers

  • Daisuke Nakamura
  • Shigetoshi Kitayama
  • Yuuki Hayashi

Program Support

  • Kazuki Yoshihara

NCL Product Testing

  • Akira Yano
  • Super Mario Club

Special Thanks

  • Kenji Tominaga
  • Yoshio Tajiri
  • Masafumi Saito
  • Saya Tsuruta
  • HyonJyon Lee
  • Takenori Ohta
  • Teiko Sasaki
  • Yuichiro Mori
  • Sachiko Hamano
  • Emi Endo
  • Kenjiro Ito
  • Tomotaka Komura
  • Susumu Fukunaga
  • Masami Tanaka
  • Michiko Takizawa
  • Kenichi Arai
  • Yumi Hoshi
  • Jiro Koga
  • Norihide Okamura
  • Shunsuke Kohori
  • Takanao Kondo
  • Hiroyuki Uesugi
  • Teruki Murakawa
  • Kimiko Nakamichi
  • Souichi Yamamoto
  • Akira Kinashi
  • Hiroshi Akune
  • Takao Nakano

Information Supervisors

  • Hiromi Sagawa
  • Yuri Sakurai
  • Naoko Yanase

Artwork

  • Sachiko Nakamichi
  • Kiyomi Oe
  • Yasuko Sugiyama

Coordinators

  • Shusaku Egami
  • Kazuki Yoshihara
  • Kaori Ando

English Version Coordinators

  • Seth McMahill
  • Keisuke Tominaga

English Version Assistant Coordinator

  • Joel Simon

Translator

  • Nob Ogasawara

Text Editors

  • Teresa Lillygreen
  • Seth McMahill

NOA Product Testing

  • Thomas Hertzhog
  • Leland Jones
  • Patrick Taylor
  • Mika Kurosawa

NOA Special Thanks

  • Nicola Wright
  • Devon Ryning
  • Hitomi Ross
  • Kyle Hudson
  • Joshua Newman

Localization

  • Teruki Murakawa
  • Kimiko Nakamichi
  • Souichi Yamamoto
  • Akira Kinashi
  • Noriko Nakao
  • Ken Kato
  • Norihito Ito
  • Haruhiko Imatake
  • Tomoko Nakayama
  • Hiroshi Akune
  • Kazuhiro Fujihara
  • Yuuki Tanikawa
  • Ryo Yamaguchi

Producers

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

Executive producers

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