Sonic Mania/Production credits

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Production credits

• Developed by: Christian Whitehead, Headcannon, PadogaWest Games
• In Association with Sega

Sonic Mania Development Team

• Lead Developer: Christian Whitehead
• Project Manager: Hunter Bridges
• Business Dev: Greg Dawson

Programming

• Lead Programmer: Christian Whitehead
• Programmer: Simon "Stealth" Thomley, Hunter Bridges

Design

• Lead Designer: Jared Kasl
• Designers: Brad Flick, Taryn Costello, Michael Balm

Art

• Art Director: Tom Fry
• Artists: Paul Veer, Kieran Gates, Lucas "Midio" Carvalho

Sound

• Composer: Tee Lopes
• Mastering: Falk Au Yeong
• Sound Designers: Hunter Bridges, Jameson Sutton
• Announcer: Takenobu Mitsuyoshi
• Audio Engineer: Jun Senoue

Sega

• VP of Product Development and Creative Services: Takashi Iizuka
• Director of Creative Services: Kazuyuki Hoshino
• Director of Product Development: Austin Keys
• Producer: Lola Shiraishi

Tantalus Media

• CEO: Tom Crago
• Producer: Joss Ellis

Programming

• Switch Lead: David Lally
• Programmers: Sean O'Sullivan, Derek Johnson

QA

• QA Leads: David Doe, Sheylla Tupia

Original Music

• Green Hill Zone, Chemical Plant Zone, Oil Ocean Zone: Composed by Masato Nakamura

Animation Intro

• Director, Lead Animator: Tyson Hesse
• Music: "Friends" by Hyper Potions
• Animation Supervisor: Takashi Iizuka, Kazuyuki Hoshino
• Animation Producer: Aaron Webber
• Animation Assistance: Studio Yotta, Mariel Cartwright
• BG Illustrations: Hans Tseng
• Compositing, Motion Graphics: Brady Hartel, Jon Kim

Special Thanks

• Elizabeth Ramirez, Lana Kasl and Baby Tenly, Rachel Steinberg, John Hardin, Allie Doyon, Michael Cisneros, Jasmin Hernandez, Ales "The Kidd" Solverson, Mai Kiyotaki, Edith Yang, Kitty Mach, Peter Bowman, Misty Noor, Ben Westhoven, Sergio Montelegre, Aaron Webber, Sam Mullin, Westin

Sega of America, Inc.

• CEO and COO: Tasuyuki Miyazaki
• Executive VP: Yusuke Suai
• SVP: Ivo Gerscovich

Production

• VP of Product Development and Creative Services: Takashi Iizuka
• Director of Product Development: Austin Keys
• Producers: Lola Shiraishi, Miki Takahashi, Terri Watanabe

Marketing

• Marketing Manager: Ari Sariel
• Marketing Associate: Nathan Shabazi
• PR Manager: Edith Yang
• Social Media Manager: Aaron Webber
• Social Media Coordinator: Sergio Montealegre

Licensing

• Licensing Director: Ari Sariel
• Senior Manager: Sylvia Barraza
• PD Manager: Sandra Jo
• Associate Manager: Alex "The Kidd" Solverson
• Specialist: Michael Cisneros
• PD Coordinator: Mai Kiyotaki

Creative Services

• Director of Creative Services: Kazuyuki Hoshino
• Senior Graphic Designer: Jimmy Lenoir
• Graphic Designer: Petia Koutzarova
• Associate Manager: Alex "The Kidd" Solverson
• Specialist: Michael Cisneros
• PD Coordinator: Mai Kiyotaki

Multimedia Production

• Producer: Marlene Sharp
• Production Coordinators: Jasmin Hernandez, Ayumi Tanioka

Legal and Business Affairs

• Director of Legal and Business: Cindy Lin
• Legal and Business Counsel: Wendy Wang

Corporate

• SVP of Publishing: Naoto Hiraoka
• VP of Sales and Marketing: Tim Pivnicny
• Director of Business Planning: Kenya Numata
• Sales Administration Manager: Nathan Harris
• Sales Administration: Connie Chinn
• Financial Analyst: Hajime Sugino

Atlus USA, Inc.

Marketing

• Senior Marketing Manager: Robyn Mukai Koshi
• Marketing Associate: Sara Chan
• Creative Designers: Ayami Haruno, Amy Shimoshige
• Web Designer: James Kaneshiro
• Events and Purchasing Manager: Kathy Park

Production

• VP of Production: Bill Alexander

Quality Assurance

• QA Manager: Carl Chen
• Assistant QA Manager: Scott Williams
• QA Lead: Elwood Cruz
• QA Accomplice Specialist: Rob Stone
• QA Testers: Tony Resendes, Adam Borno, Ian Kelly, Logan Sandefur, Steven Kawafuchi

IT

• Senior Systems Admin: Bryan Khul
• IT Guy Tyrone: Brian "Bquick" Quach

Sega Europe, Ltd.

• COO: Jurgen Post
• CFO: John Ward
• SVP: Martin Servante

Product Development

• Head of Studio Localisation and ESO: Charlie Harris
• Producer: Teppei Otsuka
• Head of Program Office: Mark Le Breton
• Submission Manager: Mike Veness
• Process and TCM Manager: Ben Howell
• Senior SDET: Mindaugas Batitus
• Junior SDET: Gordon McKendrick
• Head of QA and Localisation and ESO: Ghulam Khan
• Production Manager: Adrian Daly
• Project Lead: Owen Hewitt
• Resource Manager: Ben Jackson
• Training and Recruitment Supervisor: Julie Metior
• Localisation Manager: Marta Lois González
• Localisation Project Supervisor: Antonella Marras

Lead Translators

• Luis J. Paredes, Nicole Thomer, Jesús Álvarez

Translators

• Chiarra Canu, Gwladys Gaye, Giulia Checchi, Giuseppe Rosa, Sebastián Salguero, Martin Schmalz, Alexia Trensch, Sarah Breton, Enrico Sette

Quality Assurance

• Functionality QA Lead: Stephen Edwards
• Functionality QA Senior Tester: Jasper Engels
• Functionality QA Testers: Dumitru Garofil, Dwyane Husbands, Errol Burke, Luke Nelson, Michael Pelling, Prathan Lothongkum, Simone Decradi-Nelson, John Wright, Zack Garvey, Amandeep Gosal
• Localisation QA Supervisor: Ruggero Varisco
• Localisation QA: Jérémié Maréchau, Antonio Matrone, Irina Hoff, Jose Torres

Compliance

• Compliance QA Leads: David Jenkins, Gerson de Sousa
• Compliance QA Senior Tester: Renato Insalaco
• Compliance QA Testers: Martha Baquero, Michael Blanco

Mastering

• Mastering and Equipment Manager: Francesco Fraulo
• Equipment and Shift Coordinator: Tony Langan
• Mastering and Build Engineer: Shaun Young
• Equipment and Mastering Coordinator: Danny Florey
• Assistant Mastering Technician: Ashar Dubois
• Development Service Administrator: Chris Geiles

Customer Service

• Customer Service Manager: John White

Marketing PR and Comms

• Marketing Director: Anna Downing
• Senior Product Managers: Ben Walker, Tim Breach, Lewis Herbert
• Brand Manager: Derek Seklecki
• Marketing Manager: Reena Sood
• Product Manager: James Dyer
• Head of PR: Peter Oliver
• PR Manager: Sarah Head
• PR Assistant: Kerry Barrett
• Senior Marketing Manager: Alfonso Cubias
• PR Manager: Erica Denning

Creative Services

• Head of Creative Services: Jeff Webber
• Traffic Manager: Samra Halli
• Creative Team Manager: Noud Tempelaere
• Senior Creative Designer: Ranj Vekaria
• Creative Artworker: James Kent
• Video Suite Manager: Elliot Kidner
• Video Suite Editor: Chris Bailey
• Video Suite Assistant: Una Marzorati

Searchlight

• SVP, Commercial Publishing: John Clark
• Content Director: Dean Trotman
• Head of Brand: Rowan Tafler
• Senior Content Manager: Bobby Wertheim

Commercial Publishing

• VP of Digital Business: James Schall
• Business Development Directors: Peter Chan, Stephane Bonazza
• Technical Director: Steve Sharp
• EMEA Sales Director: Alison Gould
• Head of EMEA Sales: Simon Inch
• EMEA Sales Account Manager: Stephanie Olbe
• Senior Business Manager: Anh Luong
• Junior Digital Account Manager: Charlotte Rouget-Murphy
• Digital Distribution Assistant: Megan Garett
• Senior Business Analyst: Jarvis Crofts
• Business Analysts: Filippo Minigione, Pedro Gonzalez
• Project Launch Manager: James Gourlay
• Project Launch Assistant: Clinton Allman

Business Planning

• SVP, Business Planning: Katsuhiro Ichinose
• Director of Business Analysis: Jean-Yves Lapasset
• Publishing Project Manager: Ryoko Nakao
• Senior Business Planning Analyst: Yoshiko Mukaiyama
• Business Planning Co-ordinator: Takashi Nakaya
• Business Analyst: Matthew Hodgson
• Junior Business Analyst: Samuel Riches
• European Research Manager: Lucy Peaple
• European Research Executive: Douglas Owusu
• European Research Assistant: Daniel Vincent

Operations

• Head of Operations: Natalie Cooke, Linda Kershaw
• Operations Co-ordinator: Jacob Nixon

Brand Licensing

• Director of EU Brand Licensing: Jason Rice
• Senior Licensing Manager: Toby Rayfield
• Retail Licensing Power: Kay Ferneyhough
• Product Development Manager: Samuel Byard
• Licensing Co-ordinator: Jason Goonery
• Junior Graphic Designer: Paul Dunn

Legal

• Director of Legal and Business Affairs: Nicky Ormrod
• Head of Licensing: Nivine Emeran
• Legal Counsels: Daniel Finegold, Ilan Pdahtzur
• Legal Executive: Lola Okuboyejo

Finance

• Finance Director: Deepak Sharma
• Finance Controller: Michael Riley
• Group Finance Manager: Lenia Peros
• Finance Manager: Paul Foley
• Credit Control Manager: Pauline McDonagh
• Management Accountant: Tac Hau
• Accounts Payment Supervisor: Bradley Matthews
• Accounts Co-ordinator: Sunil Kalotia
• Oracle Applications Support: Luke Walker
• Oracle Finance Applications Support: Richard Welch

Online

• Head of Design and Development: Nick McKenzie
• Lead Interactive Designer: Sean Gallagher
• Junior Online Producer: Scott Bone
• Senior Web Designer: Marta Camilo

IT

• Director of Technology: Stuart Wright
• Head of Live Operations and Development: Francis Hart
• Senior Systems Infrastructure Analyst: Jide Agbalaya
• Network and Security Manager: Khasif Iqbal
• Network and Security Technicians: Clinton Littlejohn, Mohamed Bensakrane
• Linux Live Operations Engineer: Borislav Velchev
• Project Manager: Paul Leclercq
• Online Services Developer: Navin Algoo
• Web Developer: Rob Howard
• Data Architect: Felix Baker
• Junior Data Developer: Jagdeep Gosal
• IT Support Manager: Luis de Mendonca
• Junior IT Support Technicians: Bryan Mencias, Stacy Lovage
• Live Operations Monitoring Lead: Peter Hamilton
• Live Operations Monitoring Engineers: Ricky Hetherington, Fernando Azevedo, Rikki Laffar, Daniel Dixon, Haren Patel

HR

• Director of HR: Ben Harrison
• HR Manager: Eithne Metcalfe-Bliss
• Payroll and Benefits Manager: Shilpa Pandya
• Talent Executive: Ashleigh Meale
• HR Assistant: Roseanna Jefferson

Corporate

• Facilities Manager: Aidan Bass
• Corporate Office Manager: Lindsey Cox
• Receptionist: Alexia Hudson

Sega Games Co., Ltd.

• Localization Support: Tatsuyuki Miyazaki, Tatsuya Shikata, Shintaro Tanioka, Takuma Hatori, Emi Yamane, Takuya Kishimoto, Kohei Kondo
• Marketing: Toyohisa Hiwatari, Satoshi Imai, Sho Nanmoku
• Executive Marketing Supervisor: Hiroyuki Miyazaki
• Promotion: Takayoshi Ohuchi, Koji Uemura, Natsuki Sato, Risa Araki, Ruiko Miyamoto, Ikuo Ishizaka
• First Party Managers: Tetsuo Sasaki, Chiaki Furuya
• PR: Mamoru Kodama, Yuko Yasuda, Teruyuki Kaida, Rei Kawasaki, Akane Inoue
• Asia Business Dept.: Go Saito, Shintaro Tanioka, Takako Takusagawa, Quan Yeng, Takeyuki Iso, Kenji Sonobe, Hiroshi Seno, Takuji Konuma, Kenta Ueno, Yosuke Okunari, Takafumi Osaka, Yui Funakoshi, Ryuta Sakamoto
• Package and Manual Distribution: Yoshihiro Sakuta, Hiroki Osawa, Colin Restall, Makoto Nishino, Takuya Hamamoto
• Product Test: Takashi Shoji, Akira Nishikawa, Osamu Sato, Kenzo Kadowaki, Takayuki Miyazaki, Atsushi Furukawa, Kenji Takahashi, Chiharu Yoshida
• Quality Assurance: Tomoki Kaji, Kazuhiko Morii, Yasuyuki Hattori, Yuji Nakamura, Shunya Shimizu
• Web Design: Yuichi Kikuchi
• Chief Producer: Osamu Ohashi
• Executive Producer: Haruki Satomi, Kenji Matsubara, Toshihiro Nagoshi
• © Sega 2017

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In-game credits

Breakdown

Music credits

ID	Name	Description	Credits	Used	Comments
00	Discovery	Title screen	Composer: Tee Lopes Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
01	Comfort Zone	Main menu	Composer: Tee Lopes Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
02	Sunshine Cassette	Mania Mode save select	Composer: Tee Lopes Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
03	Double Take	Encore Mode save select	Composer: Falk Au Yeong Arrangement: Falk Au Yeong	Yes	Sonic Mania Plus only.
04	Head 2 Head	Competition menu	Composer: Tee Lopes Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
05	The Winner!	Results screen	Composer: Tee Lopes Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
06	The Blur	Speed up	Composer: Tee Lopes Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
07	Undefeated	Invincible	Composer: Tee Lopes Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
08		1 UP jingle	Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
09		Act clear	Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
10		Angel Island Zone	Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes	Sonic Mania Plus only.
11		Green Hill Zone Act 1	Composer: Masato Nakamura Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
12		Green Hill Zone Act 2	Composer: Masato Nakamura Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
13		Chemical Plant Zone Act 1	Composer: Masato Nakamura Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
14		Chemical Plant Zone Act 2	Composer: Masato Nakamura Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
15	Lights, Camera, Action!	Studiopolis Zone Act 1	Composer: Tee Lopes Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
16	Prime Time	Studiopolis Zone Act 2	Composer: Tee Lopes Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
17		Flying Battery Zone Act 1	Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
18		Flying Battery Zone Act 2	Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
19	Tabloid Jargon	Press Garden Zone Act 1	Composer: Tee Lopes Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
20	Blossom Haze	Press Garden Zone Act 2	Composer: Tee Lopes Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
21		Stardust Speedway Zone Act 1	Composer: Naofumi Hataya Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
22		Stardust Speedway Zone Act 2	Composer: Naofumi Hataya Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
23		Hydrocity Zone Act 1	Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
24		Hydrocity Zone Act 2	Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
25	Skyway Octane	Mirage Saloon Zone Act 1 ST	Composer: Tee Lopes Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
26	Wildstyle Pistolero	Mirage Saloon Zone Act 1 K	Composer: Tee Lopes Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
27	Rogues Gallery	Mirage Saloon Zone Act 2	Composer: Tee Lopes Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
28		Oil Ocean Zone Act 1	Composer: Masato Nakamura Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
29		Oil Ocean Zone Act 2	Composer: Masato Nakamura Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
30		Lava Reef Zone Act 1	Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
31		Lava Reef Zone Act 2	Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
32		Metallic Madness Zone Act 1	Composer: Naofumi Hataya Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
33		Metallic Madness Zone Act 2	Composer: Naofumi Hataya Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
34	Built to Rule	Titanic Monarch Zone Act 1	Composer: Tee Lopes Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
35	Steel Cortex	Titanic Monarch Zone Act 2	Composer: Tee Lopes Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
36	Danger on the Dance Floor	Mini boss	Composer: Tee Lopes Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
37	Ruby Delusions	Eggman boss 1	Composer: Tee Lopes Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
38	Havoc Prognosis	Eggman boss 2	Composer: Tee Lopes Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
39	Hi-Spec Robo Go!	Hard Boiled Heavies boss	Composer: Tee Lopes Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
40	Ruby Illusions	Final boss	Composer: Tee Lopes Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
41	Eggman Mean Bean	Mean Bean Machine	Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
42		Metal Sonic boss	Composer: Naofumi Hataya Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
43	Egg Reverie	Egg Reverie Zone	Composer: Tee Lopes Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
44	Egg panicky	Egg Reverie Zone pinch mode	Composer: Tee Lopes Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	No
45	Dimension Heist	Special Stage	Composer: Tee Lopes Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
46	Blue Spheres	Blue Spheres Bonus Stage	Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
47	Trap Tower	Pinball Bonus Stage	Arrangement: Falk Au Yeong	Yes	Sonic Mania Plus only.
48	Guided Tour	Staff roll	Composer: Tee Lopes Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
49	Glimmering Gift	Super transformation	Composer: Tee Lopes Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
50		Drowning	Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
51		Game Over	Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
52	Who's the boss?	Hard Boiled Heavies mischief theme	Composer: Tee Lopes Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
53		Angel Island Zone cutscene	Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
54	Countdown to Continue	Continue	Composer: Tee Lopes Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes
55	Back in Action	Mighty & Ray cutscene	Arrangement: Hunter Bridges	Yes	Sonic Mania Plus only.
N/A	Friends	Intro FMV	Composer: Hyper Potions Arrangement: Hyper Potions	Yes
N/A	Rise of the Icon	Intro FMV (alternate)	Composer: Tee Lopes Arrangement: Tee Lopes, Falk Au Yeong	Yes