Staff
Chief Producer	Yuji Naka
Producer	Yojiro Ogawa
Director	Takumi Yoshinaga
Game Designers	Emiko Sunaga, Takako Nagase
Chief Artist	Nanako Yarimizu
Senior Artist	Yoshitaka Miura
Character Animator	Motomu Hayashi
Interface Design	Taro Hino
Artists	Rieko Muramatsu, Naruki Sugeno, Kenya Suzuki, Kunio Kamikura
Programmers	Nobuo Nakagawa, Keiichi Noda, Takuma Komatsu, Daigo Matsuura
Sound Director	Naofumi Hataya
Sound Creator	Mariko Nanba
Story	Chizuru Asyura
Short‑jingle & Chorus	Tomoko Sasaki
Thanks	Kenichi Tokoi, Tomoya Ohtani, Junko Shiratsu
Executive Managment	Masanao Maeda, Hideki Okamura
Executive Producer	Hisao Oguchi
Sega of Japan, Inc.
Product Marketing Manager	Hiroyuki Miyazaki, Takeshi Shimizu, Yasushi Yamashita
Retale Sales Manager	Tooru Yasuda, Takehiro Yoshida
Sales Promotio	Mariko Takeda
Public Relations Leader	Youko Nagasawa
Localization Support Representatives at IBPD	Shinobu Shindo, Shiko Sakai, Yukiko Kato
Technical Support	Takashi Shoji, Akihiro Etori
CG Team Director	Takeshi Ito
CG Team Artist	Tomokazu Takahashi
Sega Logistics Service Co., Ltd
Product Managment	Junishi Shimizu
Product Support	Akira Nishikawa, Akira Terasawa
Quality Control	Kazuhiko Morii
Manual	Yoshihiro Sakuta, Hisakazu Nakagawa, Makoto Nishino, Takashi Nishimura, Masaru Kobayashi
Packaging	Yoshihiro Sakuta, Hisakazu Nakagawa, Makoto Nishino, Takashi Nishimura, Masaru Kobayashi
Sega Of America, Inc.
President	Hide Irie
COO	Hide Irie
Director of Product Development	Osamu Shibamiya
Producer	Klayton Vorlick
Project Test Lead	Shawn Dobbins
Release Manager	Rick Ribble Jr.
VP of Entertainment Marketing	Scott A. Steinberg
Product Marketing Manager	Heather Guzenda
Public Relations Manager	Bret Blount
Associate Public Relations Manager	Ethan Einhorn
Senior Media Specialist	Teri A. Higgins
Special Thanks	Jeanette Manahan, Bridget Oates, Chris Olson, May Hayes, Jason Kuo
Sega Europe
President	Naoya Tsurumi
COO	Naoya Tsurumi
VP ‑ Sales and Marketing	Michael Hayes
VP ‑ Product Development	Jin Shimazaki
European Marketing Director	Matthew Woodley
Head of European Marketing	Gary Knight
Localization Producer	Akiko O'Driscoll
European Marketing Manager	Helen Nicholas
European Product Manager	Mark Fisher
German Translator	Daniela Kaynert
French Translator	Brigitte Nadesan
Spanish Translator	Marta Lois González
Italian Translator	Giuseppe Rizzo
QA Supervisor	Antonella Marras, Sonia Souto, Max Brode
Localisation Producer	Kuniyo Matsumoto
UK Sales Director	Alan Pritchard
Head of Export	Alison Gould
Head of Operations	Mark Simmons
Software Production Manager	Caroline Searle
Creative Services	Tom Bingle, Morgan Gibbons
QA Manager	Mark LeBreton
QA Supervisors	Darius Sadeghian, Marlon Grant
QA Team Lead	Julie Metior
Testers	Natalie Holkham, David Jefferson, Craig Metior, Thomas Lee Brown, Stephen Malcolm, Alessandro Irranca, Jean-Baptiste Bagot, Max Brode, Luis J. Paredes
Koo-Ki Motion Graphics
Director	Motohiro Shirakawa
Executive Management	Masanao Maeda, Hideki Okamura
Executive Producer	Hisao Oguchi
Special Thanks To	All staff members and their families

Other Games

In addition to this game, the following people are listed as working on other games. No more than 25 people are listed here, even if there are more than 25 people who have also worked on other games.

Naoya Tsurumi, 133 other games
Gary Knight, 120 other games
Shawn Dobbins, 107 other games
Osamu Shibamiya, 107 other games
Mark LeBreton, 105 other games
Yoshihiro Sakuta, 97 other games
Giuseppe Rizzo, 94 other games
Marta Lois González, 89 other games
Jason Kuo, 85 other games
Matthew Woodley, 77 other games
Scott A. Steinberg, 76 other games
Masanao Maeda, 75 other games
Morgan Gibbons, 71 other games
Akira Nishikawa, 67 other games
Daniela Kaynert, 66 other games
Marlon Grant, 65 other games
Julie Metior, 65 other games
Jin Shimazaki, 64 other games
Shinobu Shindo, 63 other games
Luis J. Paredes, 62 other games
Alessandro Irranca, 62 other games
Mark Fisher, 58 other games
Teri A. Higgins, 55 other games
Tom Bingle, 54 other games
Michael Hayes, 54 other games

Collaborations

People who have worked on this game have also collaborated on the creation of the following games:

Sonic the Hedgehog, a group of 46 people
Sonic Heroes, a group of 43 people
Sonic Riders, a group of 41 people
Shadow the Hedgehog, a group of 40 people
Sonic Unleashed, a group of 38 people
Sonic Rush, a group of 38 people
Sonic Unleashed, a group of 37 people
Sonic Gems Collection, a group of 36 people
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, a group of 31 people
Altered Beast, a group of 31 people
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games, a group of 30 people
Puyo Pop Fever, a group of 30 people
Sonic and the Black Knight, a group of 29 people
Full Auto, a group of 29 people
Sonic Generations, a group of 28 people
Condemned: Criminal Origins, a group of 28 people
Crush, a group of 28 people
Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut, a group of 27 people
Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity, a group of 27 people
Sonic and the Secret Rings, a group of 27 people
Worldwide Soccer Manager 2006, a group of 25 people
Sonic the Hedgehog, a group of 24 people
Worms Forts: Under Siege, a group of 24 people
Spartan: Total Warrior, a group of 24 people
Resonance of Fate, a group of 24 people