Christopher A. Smith



Christopher A. Smith is a former game tester and customer service representative at Nintendo of America, where he worked from 2000-2003 (Smith was a customer service rep for the last year). Smith tested Metroid Fusion and two other Game Boy Advance games (Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 and Game & Watch Gallery 4), as well as three Nintendo GameCube games (Super Mario Sunshine, Pikmin and Luigi's Mansion). Smith was uncredited in Fusion.

Smith has since become a full-fledged game designer, working with Microsoft's Turn 10 Studios on Forza Motorsport 4 and Forza Motorsport 5 and Ringzero Networks, a mobile game development company based in Thailand. As a result, Smith is fluent in Thai, as well as Pig Latin. Smith returned to Microsoft in June 2017 to work as a game and level designer for Minecraft.