The Wind Waker Staff

The Wind Waker

Release
Platform	Date
Nintendo GameCube	December 13, 2002 March 24, 2003 April 16, 2003 May 2, 2003 May 7, 2003
Nintendo Wii U (The Wind Waker HD)	September 26, 2013 October 4, 2013 October 4, 2013 October 5, 2013
Nintendo Switch 2 Online+Expansion Pack	🌎 June 5, 2025
Credits
Developer	Nintendo EAD
Producer	Shigeru Miyamoto
Director	Eiji Aonuma
Guides
Walkthrough	Walkthrough
Big Octos Blue ChuChus Bosses Bottles Characters Enemies Heart Pieces Items Trading Sequence Treasure Charts Songs Story Upgrades Withered Trees
Media
Gallery	Image Gallery
Music	Midis Soundtrack

This is a list of the staff who developed The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.

Executive Producer	Satoru Iwata
Producers	Shigeru Miyamoto Takashi Tezuka
Director	Eiji Aonuma
Script & Event Planning	Mitsuhiro Takano Hajime Takahashi
System Director	Shigeo Kimura
Assistant Directors	Yasuyuki Oyagi Kimiharu Hyodo Toshihiro Kawabata Isao Moro Kentaro Tominaga Taku Matoba Yoichi Yamada Kenta Usui Yoshiaki Koizumi
GBA Planning	Toshiaki Suzuki
Design Managers	Yoshiki Haruhana Satoru Takizawa Masanao Arimoto
Character Design	Daisuke Kageyama Ryuji Kobayashi Yoshiyuki Oyama Keisuke Nishimori Yo Ohnishi Koji Takahashi
Map Design	Shinichi Ikematsu Hiromasa Shikata Hirotake Ohtsubo Yoshihisa Morimoto Koji Kitagawa Akito Osanai Yuu Kudo Kanae Kobata Eiji Mukao
3D Animation	Kimihiro Ozaki Takahiro Nishigaki Chikako Nishizaki Takeshi Yamaguchi
Screen Design	Takahiro Hamaguchi Satoshi Furukawa
Effect Design	Yusuke Akifusa Haruyasu Ito
Music	Kenta Nagata Hajime Wakai Toru Minegishi Koji Kondo
Demo Design	Takumi Kawagoe Naoki Mori Hiroyasu Kuwabara Shunsuke Makita
Programming Directors	Toshio Iwawaki Kazuaki Morita
Player Programming	Hiroshi Umemiya
Main System Programming	Kenzo Hayakawa Yuhiki Otsuki Kunihiro Komatu
Game System Programming	Makoto Sasaki Kenji Matsutani
Camera Programming	Masatoshi Ogawa
Enemy Programming	Takamitsu Kuzuhara Takafumi Noma
2D Programming	Atsushi Sakaguchi Shigeki Yoshida Nobuo Okajima
NPC Programming	Nobuhiro Sumiyoshi Atsushi Nishiwaki Yoshitaka Takeshita Satoru Takahata Nobuhiko Sadamoto
Object Programming	Masaro Sakakibara Kouji Sakai Eiji Nishikawa Masaru Nii Hiromichi Miyake Gentaro Takaki
GBA Programming	Shigehiro Kasamatsu Yukari Suzuki
Programming Support	Yuichi Yamamoto
Sound Effect Programming	Masafumi Kawamura Taiju Suzuki Takahiro Watanabe
Tool Design/Programming	Yasunari Nishida Masato Kimura Yasuhiro Kawaguchi Hirohito Yoshimoto Yoshinori Tanimoto Takashi Endo Tetsuya Sasaki Yasuki Tawaraishi Toshikazu Kiuchi Yusuke Kurahashi Hiroyuki Kono Tatsuro Ota Kei Miyamoto Yohei Fujino Masahiro Nitta
Library Programming	Hiroto Yada Hajime Nakamura Eiichi Shirakawa Motoi Okamoto
Sound Library Programming	Taro Bando Yoji Inagaki Hideaki Shimizu Yasushi Ida Mitsuhiro Hikino Toru Asakawa
Technical Support	Masahiro Imaizumi
Voice	Sachi Matsumoto Hikari Tachibana Takeshi Nagasako Eiji Maruyama Osamu Hosoi Hironori Miyata Takeharu Ohnishi Asami Imai Chiaki Takahashi
Progress Management	Keizo Kato Shinya Takahashi
Debug Support	Hironobu Kakui Yoshito Yasuda
European Localization	Product Localization Team
Coordination	Marcus Krause
English Text	Bill Trinen Nate Bihldorff
Translation German	Joe Shanel Micky Auer
French	Hélène Guillemain Thomas Miriel
Spanish	Eduardo López Herrero Jesús Ángel Rodríguez Gago
Italian	Francesca Di Marco Massimo Maietti Validation and Testing Team
North American Localization	Rich Amtower Nate Bihldorff Reiko Ninomiya Tim O'Leary Bill Trinen
Localization Management	Leslie Swan Jeff Miller
NoA Engineering Debug Team	Scott Callahan Paul Rush Dan Simpson Tim Casey Miho Hattori Christine Zumwalt Andy Becraft Robert Crombie Yoshinobu Mantani Raychole L'Anett
Supervisors	Tadashi Sugiyama Hideki Konno Toshihiko Nakago
Special Thanks	Takaya Imamura Tomoaki Kuroume Takeshi Hosono Hiromu Takemura Satomi Maekawa Noriko Ikegawa Kazumi Yamaguchi Jun Takamura Aya Sumimoto Shinko Takeshita Taeko Sugawara Atsushi Miyagi Kenta Motokura Akiko Hirono Yoshihiro Matsushima Tomomi Iwasaki Tsuyoshi Watanabe Shigeki Yoshida Yasuyo Yamamoto Akira Ito Naoki Takami Junya Hanai Super Mario Club ARTSVISION Co., Ltd SRD Co., Ltd

References

1. ↑ Ruliweb