Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics released this past Friday, and it’s bizarrely fantastic. And now that the game is out in the wild, we can see who actually developed the title. Per Nintendo Everything observation, the game was primarily developed by NDcube, the developer of Super Mario Party. The two titles have a dramatic amount of staff in common, as Nintendo Everything has documented:
Director
Atsushi Nakao (Super Mario Party design director)
Design director
Takaki Kobayashi (Super Mario Party design director)
Makoto Eguchi (Super Mario Party game design)
Yuya Rokuyama (Super Mario Party game design)
Hiroyuki Seki (Super Mario Party game design)
Ryo Yokomizo (Super Mario Party game design)Game design
Kunio Asahara (Super Mario Party game design)
Yukako Kawauchi (Super Mario Party game design)
Masafumi Ojika (Super Mario Party game design)
Yasuki Toyosawa (not involved with Super Mario Party)
Takayuki Ide (not involved with Super Mario Party)
Akihito Sato (not involved with Super Mario Party)Chief program director
Tadao Shoyama (Super Mario Party program)
Program directors
Akira Matsumoto (Super Mario Party program director)
Atsushi Hamada (Super Mario Party program)Chief art director
Takahiro Karino (Super Mario Party chief art director)
Art directors
Hidenobu Sasaki (not involved with Super Mario Party)
Ryoichi Okayama (Super Mario Party art)Chief sound director
Ichiro Shimakura (Super Mario Party chief sound director)
Sound director
Yuhki Mori (Super Mario Party sound director)
Music director
Chamy Ishi (Super Mario Party music director)
Music
Toshiki Aida (Super Mario Party music)
Many fans have always been baffled that Super Mario Party never received DLC, both because the title was relatively well received and because the game was frankly a bit skimpy on content. If NDcube immediately shifted gears into creating Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics, that would at least explain what the developer had been doing in lieu of DLC. Of course, that doesn’t negate the idea that NDcube could have developed Clubhouse Games and still spared some staff for further Super Mario Party DLC.
In any case, now we know who was responsible for this title!
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