Taro Kudo
aka:
Taro Kudou,
工藤 太郎,
くどう たろう
Moby ID: 485813
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Taro Kudo (工藤 太郎, Kudō Tarō) is a Japanese video game designer and video game music composer. He began his career working for Konami and Square in the 1990's, then joined fellow ex-Square designers at Love-de-lic in 1996, where he designed UFO: A Day in the Life. Kudo currently works as director for the developing company Vanpool.
Credited on 24 games
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| Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2024, Nintendo Switch) | Text Editing/Event Supervisor |
| Super Mario RPG (2023, Nintendo Switch) | Event Director |
| Paper Mario: The Origami King (2020, Nintendo Switch) | Event Director |
| Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2018, Nintendo Switch) | Character Voice |
| Dillon's Dead-Heat Breakers (2018, Nintendo 3DS) | Voice |
| Paper Mario: Color Splash (2016, Wii U) | Directors |
| Chibi-Robo! Zip Lash (2015, Nintendo 3DS) | Producers |
| Super Smash Bros. for Wii U (2014, Wii U) | Character Voice |
| Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS (2014, Nintendo 3DS) | Character Voice |
| Paper Mario: Sticker Star (2012, Nintendo 3DS) | Directors |
| Dillon's Rolling Western (2012, Nintendo 3DS) | Voice / Add. Writing |
| Stickvania (2010, Browser) | The music and sound effects borrowed from Konami’s brilliant works Castlevania and Super Castlevania IV were composed by |
| Wacky World of Sports (2009, Wii) | Concept & Advice |
| Magician's Quest: Mysterious Times (2008, Nintendo DS) | Vanpool Inc. |
| Let's Pilates (2008, Nintendo DS) | Director |
| I Wanna Be The Guy: The Movie - The Game (2007, Windows) | Original Music Composers (uncredited) |
| Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland (2006, Nintendo DS) | Director |
| Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga (2003, Game Boy Advance) | Mini-games by Vanpool |
| Endonesia (2001, PlayStation 2) | Planning |
| UFO: A Day in the Life (1999, PlayStation) | Cosmo Planning (コスモプランニング) |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 12 games with Kensuke Tanabe
- 12 games with Shinya Takahashi
- 12 games with Masanori Adachi
- 11 games with Kōji Kondō
- 10 games with Shigeru Miyamoto
- 10 games with Nathan Bihldorff
- 9 games with Takashi Tezuka
- 9 games with Risa Tabata
- 8 games with Satoru Iwata
- 8 games with Billy Carroll
Companies
- 13 games with Nintendo Co., Ltd.
- 13 games with Nintendo of America Inc.
- 9 games with Nintendo of Europe GmbH
- 8 games with VANPOOL Inc.
- 4 games with NOA Product Testing
- 4 games with Mario Club, Inc.
- 4 games with Intelligent Systems Co., Ltd.
- 4 games with Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc.
- 3 games with Sora Ltd.
- 3 games with DIGITAL Hearts Co., Ltd.
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