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title: "DKC Tropical Freeze Lead Designer back at Retro Studios"
url: "https://www.nintendoreporters.com/en/news/nintendo-switch/dkc-tropical-freeze-lead-designer-back-at-retro-studios/"
description: "One of Retro Studios‘ big talents returned to give the company a well deserved creative boost it seems. As apparently, DKC Tropical Freeze Lead, Stephen Dupree is back!"
author: "Patrick Dankers"
published at: "2020-01-06 16:46:12"
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DKC Tropical Freeze Lead Designer back at Retro Studios | Nintendo Switch News | NintendoReporters

 [![DKC Tropical Freeze Lead Designer back at Retro Studios](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/dkc-tropical-freeze-lead-designer-back-at-retro-studios.jpeg "DKC Tropical Freeze Lead Designer back at Retro Studios")](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/dkc-tropical-freeze-lead-designer-back-at-retro-studios.jpeg)One of Retro Studios‘ big talents returned to give the company a well deserved creative boost it seems. As apparently, DKC Tropical Freeze Lead, **Stephen Dupree** is back!

Revealed thanks to an update on Dupree’s LinkedIn account, which now shows that he had rejoined Retro as of September 2019.

## [](#what-did-he-do-in-between)What did he do in between?

For the past two years before that, Dupree had departed Retro to work with Playful Corp. instead – where he worked on New Super Lucky’s Tale for Nintendo Switch.

On which I want to add he and the team over at Playful did a stellar job, just take a look;

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[Link](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/en/news/nintendo-switch/dkc-tropical-freeze-lead-designer-back-at-retro-studios/)

Yeah it’s magical isn’t it?

**But what is Dupree working on now?**

For now, it’s not clear what Dupree is working on with Retro Studios – be it Metroid Prime 4, the Donkey Kong series, or something else altogether.

What do you hope he is involved in?

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