| Risa Tabata | |
| Native Name: | 田端里沙 |
| Native Name Lang: | ja |
| Birth Place: | Osaka, Japan |
| Occupation: | Video game producer, Production coordinator |
| Employer: | Nintendo |
| Years Active: | 2001-present |
| Notable Works: | Metroid Prime Donkey Kong Country Paper Mario |
| Alma Mater: | Osaka University of Foreign Studies |
is a Japanese video game assistant producer and production coordinator working at Nintendo.
Tabata was born in Osaka and graduated from Osaka University of Foreign Studies as a liberal arts student majoring in Chinese.[1] After graduating, she applied to Nintendo with the intent of doing clerical work at the company, influenced by her experience of playing Famicom games with her younger brother back in middle school. Upon being hired in April 2001, Tabata would instead find herself as part of Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development, despite lacking any knowledge of game design at the time, and immediately assigned to be the production coordinator for Metroid Prime, assisting with communication between the Japanese Nintendo team and the Austin, Texas-based Retro Studios.[2] [3]
Since then, Tabata has continued to work on externally-developed Nintendo projects under the purview of producer Kensuke Tanabe, going on to become assistant producer and production manager for subsequent Metroid Prime games, as well as various other Nintendo titles.[4]
| Year | Game | Credit(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Metroid Prime | Coordinator |
| 2004 | Assistant producer, coordinator | |
| Voice acting | ||
| 2005 | Tottoko Hamtaro Nazonazo Q: Kumonoue no? Jou | Supervisor |
| 2007 | Assistant producer, coordinator | |
| 2008 | Captain Rainbow | Assistant producer |
| 2009 | New Play Control! Metroid Prime | Assistant producer, coordinator |
| Assistant producer | ||
| Punch-Out!! | ||
| New Play Control! Chibi-Robo | Coordinator | |
| Assistant producer, coordinator | ||
| Assistant producer | ||
| Coordinator | ||
| 2010 | Donkey Kong Country Returns | Assistant producer |
| Snowpack Park | Coordinator | |
| 2011 | ||
| 2012 | Dillon's Rolling Western | Coordinator, supervisor |
| 2013 | Game & Wario | Directing support, game design |
| Nintendoji | Assistant producer | |
| Coordinator, supervisor | ||
| Chibi-Robo! Photo Finder | Assistant producer | |
| 2014 | ||
| 2015 | Chibi-Robo! Zip Lash | Assistant producer, chief director |
| 2016 | Assistant producer | |
| 2018 | Dillon's Dead-Heat Breakers | Assistant producer, coordinator |
| 2020 | Assistant producer | |
| 2022 | Project management | |
| 2023 | Metroid Prime Remastered | Assistant producer |
| Project management | ||
| 2024 | Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door | Producer |
| Luigi's Mansion 2 HD | Project management |