{"id":106671,"date":"2020-01-03T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/01\/donkey_kong_tropical_freezes_lead_designer_has_reportedly_returned_to_retro_studios"},"modified":"2020-01-03T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T15:00:00","slug":"donkey-kong-tropical-freezes-lead-designer-has-reportedly-returned-to-retro-studios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/01\/03\/donkey-kong-tropical-freezes-lead-designer-has-reportedly-returned-to-retro-studios\/","title":{"rendered":"Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze’s Lead Designer Has Reportedly Returned To Retro Studios"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stephen Dupree, who was credited as the lead designer on the wonderful Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze<\/strong><\/a>, has reportedly returned to Retro Studios after two years away.<\/p>\n

The news comes from VGC<\/a>, who say that the ex-Retro employee will now return to work at the studio as a principle game designer. At present, the only title known to be in development at Retro Studios is the upcoming Metroid Prime 4<\/strong><\/a>; while it’s possible that he’ll therefore be a key figure for that project going forward, we can’t rule out the possibility that Retro has other goodies in the works, too.<\/p>\n

Dupree’s work doesn’t stop at only Tropical Freeze. Recently, he had a hand in the development of Playful Corp’s New Super Lucky’s Tale<\/a><\/strong> on Switch, and he was also credited on both Donkey Kong Country Returns<\/strong><\/a> and Mario Kart 7<\/strong><\/a> at Retro.<\/p>\n

You might remember that in October last year, it was revealed that Halo<\/strong> series character modeller, Kyle Hefley, had also been snapped up by Retro<\/a>. It would appear that the studio is working hard to add to its talented workforce as it chips away at Nintendo’s latest shooter, which will no doubt come as a positive sign for fans who were left wondering what would come of the game after its development overhaul<\/a>.
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In our eyes, the game can’t come soon enough.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stephen Dupree, who was credited as the lead designer on the wonderful Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, has reportedly returned to Retro Studios after two years away. The news comes from VGC, who say that the ex-Retro employee will now return to work at the studio as a principle game designer. At present, the only […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}