Late in September, Tim Little, the Vice President of engineering at Retro Studios in Austin, announced on Linked In that he was quitting his job at Retro so he could take a job at Samsung working on GPU technology. Tim Little has been with Retro for 14 years and is credited with working on all of the company’s Donkey Kong related games, the last of which was a port of Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze for the Nintendo Switch in 2018. Who is Tim Little and how does his quilting Retro Studios impact the company? What does it tell us about the future of Donkey Kong and Metroid Prime 4? Why did he leave after 14 years with the company?

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Video Chapters:

0:00 – Tim Little is quitting his job at Retro Studios to work at Samsung
2:53 – Who is Tim Little?
6:17 – Tim Little was with Retro Studios for roughly 14 years
7:39 – Why would Tim Little quit after so many years?
8:53 – This probably has nothing to do with Metroid Prime 4
9:38 – Does Tim Little’s departure have something to do with an aborted Donkey Kong game?
11:08 – In 2014 Tim Little was looking to hire new talent for an exciting new project
13:05 – We think Tim Little left because of Nintendo
15:12 – Nintendo’s tendency to cancel large game projects harms creators
17:04 – Conclusion

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