Francisco Javier Lafuente (credited as Frank Lafuente) is an American programmer. Lafuente was a programmer for all three games in the Prime Series. He was the lead programmer for Metroid Prime, although he is credited as an additional contributor, and he became the engineering director for Metroid Prime 2: Echoes and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. Prior to joining Retro Studios, Lafuente founded a game development studio called Houseworks in 1994 and was a lead programmer at Iguana Entertainment, best known for the Turok series. After leaving Retro following the completion of Donkey Kong Country Returns, Lafuente worked at Acclaim, Insomniac Games, Junction Point Studios, Intelligent Decisions (an information technology company that works with the United States federal government) and MaxPl