An interview in the latest issue of Famitsu has revealed new details of Donkey Konga: Jungle Beat.

It has been revealed that Takao Shimizu is producing the title and Yoshiaki Koizumi will act as the director. Koizumi was director on Mario Sunshine while Shimizu served as an assistant director on the title.

At Miyamoto's request the there was a meeting arranged at Nintendo where the internal developers were shown the control system for Donkey Konga. This is where Koizumi immediately ofered the idea for the Jungle Beat game.

Shimizu added, "While we were still at the Kyoto home office, Shigeru Miyamoto suggested that we make a game based off of Donkey Kong. Full development on the game began after we moved from Kyoto to Tokyo last July."

Koizumi said he liked the idea of making a game that used the conga controller, "I'd been hearing from many people that recently control [in games] is difficult, and that's when I first had the desire to make a game that was simple and easy to understand. Until now, I've only made games that make use of a standard controller, so I wanted to at last make something that had a different form of input. It was then that I was introduced to the Donkey Konga conga controller." He continued saying, "Allthough, you can't perform the same kind of moves with a conga controller that you can with a regular controller, so we had to think up some new mechanics."

This game will be the first from Nintendo's Tokyo studio, and it's not going to be the last as the studio is currently looking for experienced game development staff to create new game experiences.

We will bring you more on Donkey Konga: Jungle Beat as it breaks!