Tetsu Katano

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Tetsu Katano
片野 徹; Tetsu Katano
Overview
Gender	Male
Nationality	Japanese
Company(s)	Sega of Japan[citation needed] Sonic Team[citation needed]
Job	Programmer Producer

Tetsu Katano (片野 徹, Katano Tetsu^?) is a former programmer for Sonic Team who has worked on many games in the Sonic the Hedgehog series. He currently works mainly in production and development support roles at Sega.

History

Katano joined Sega on 1993, and his first programming credit was on Clockwork Knight for the Sega Saturn. He would join Sonic Team to work on NiGHTS into Dreams... as A-Life programmer, the Saturn version of Sonic 3D Blast as Special Stage programmer, and Sonic Jam as one of the most foremost programmers. Later on, he became a main programmer on Sonic Adventure, Sonic Adventure 2, and Sonic Heroes, with his last programming work being in Sonic and the Secret Rings. He served as producer and director for Sonic and the Black Knight, having come up with the idea of Arthurian legends serving as the backdrop for the game. In later Sonic titles, Katano would serve as technical supervisor, or in project and development support roles. He has worked on other Sega games as well, and was the producer for Sakura Wars (2019).

Credits

Programming

• Sonic 3D Blast (Sega Saturn version) (Special Stage Programmer)
• Sonic Jam
• Sonic Adventure (Main Programmer, Player Character Progammer, Lead Field Programmer)
• Sonic Adventure 2 (Main Programmer, Player Character Progammer, Enemy Programmer)
• Sonic Adventure 2: Battle (Main Programmer, Player Character Progammer, Enemy Programmer)
• Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut (Technical Support)
• Sonic Heroes (Main Programmer, Player Character Progammer, Enemy Programmer)
• Sonic and the Secret Rings (Player Character Programmer, Technical Programmer)

Production

• Sonic and the Black Knight (Producer, Director)
• Sonic Generations (Nintendo 3DS version) (Director)

Supervision

• Sonic Colors (Wii version) (Technical Supervisor)
• Sonic Generations (PlayStation 3/Xbox 360 versions) (Technical Supervisor)
• Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games (Technical Supervisor)

Miscellaneous

• Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) (Special Thanks)
• Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity (Special Thanks)
• Sonic Unleashed (Special Thanks)
• Sonic Lost World (Wii U version) (Project Support)
• Sonic Lost World (3DS version) (Technical Support)
• Sonic Runners (Project Support)
• Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games (Project Support)
• Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice (Project Support)
• Sonic Forces (Project Support)
• Team Sonic Racing (Development Support)
• Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 (Development Support)

Trivia

• Katano's favorite Sonic character is Big the Cat.

External links

• Tetsu Katano at the Internet Movie Database

Sonic Team members

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