======Winter Gold======
**//Winter Gold//** is a [[hardware:snes|Super Nintendo]] game released in 1996. A North American version was planned under the name //FX Skiing//, but was not released.

The game uses a similar graphic technique to the [[Amiga]] demo //[[wp>State_of_the_Art_(demo)|State of the Art]]//, and they share a programmer, [[people:Paul Endresen]] (AKA: Lone Starr). The developer, [[company:Funcom]], was founded by, and hired many people from the the European demo scenes.\\ 
The menu background copies the 'dancing girl' motif found in //State of the Art//, made by tracing pre-recorded video with vectors. The racing graphics use the same technique, though the traced video in these cases was originally 3-D. It's one of the most interesting looking SNES games: the graphics look like a jumbley [[hardware:playstation|PlayStation]] game, and the sparse, considered use of colour and lighting recall //[[game:mirrors_edge|Mirror's Edge]]//. Effectively the game just sprites on a streaming background (though one created in real-time--as incredible and contradictory as real-time and streaming seem to be) but feels much more alive than that.

=====Credits=====
//source:// [[http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-7387.html|ASSEMblergames]] (credits retrieved from ROM) & [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwE_I_id8Nc|Youtube]].\\ The credits listed on Wikipedia and MobyGames are less complete.

  * **Executive producers**
    * [[people:Anthony Harman]]
    * [[people:Erik Gløersen]]
  * **Producer**
    * [[people:Brian Ullrich]]
  * **Director**
    * [[people:Henning Rokling]]
  * **Additional design**
    * [[people:Ken Lobb]]
    * [[people:Joseph Bayne]]
  * **Main Programmer**
    * [[people:Olav Mørkrid]]
  * **Main modeller**
    * [[people:Rune Spaans]]
  * **Modellers**
    * [[people:Dennis Hansen]]
    * [[people:Daniel Staver]]
  * **Polygon Programmer**
    * [[people:paul_endresen|Paul Endre Endresen]]
    * [[people:Steinar Midtskogen]]
  * **Game Programmers**
    * [[people:Joakim Jönsson]]
    * [[people:Frank Stevenson]]
  * **Tools**
    * [[people:Andre Johansen]]
    * [[people:Stein Pedersen]]
  * **Music and sound**
    * [[people:Jeroen Tel]] of '[[company:Maniacs of Noise]]'
  * **Cleanup artists**
    * [[people:Tom T Gjerde]]
    * [[people:Odd Rune Hansen]]
    * [[people:Jack Kristoffersen]]
    * [[people:Dagfinn Mørkrid]]
  * **Dancing**
    * [[people:Jannicke S Olsen]]
  * **Special thanks**
    * [[people:Mike Fukuda]]
    * [[people:Mike Kelbaugh]]
    * [[people:Rich Richardson]]
    * [[people:Chris Needham]]
    * [[people:Erich Waas]]
    * [[people:Stacey Peterson]]
    * [[people:Scott Stinson]]
    * [[people:Jeff Bafus]]
    * [[people:Greg Richardson]]
    * [[people:Isaac Marshall]]
    * [[people:Henry Sterchi]]
    * [[people:Henning Solberg]]
    * [[people:Alf Yngve]]
    * [[people:Maria Mørkrid]]
    * [[people:Øystein Andersen]]

=====See also=====
  * [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpxbG-wXnmY|SNES Gameplay: Winter Gold (aka FX Skiing)]] - Video showing different stages and events.
  * [[http://www.superrune.com/gallery/1995_wintergold.php|winter Golds SNES Game]] - Page on the game's creation, by staff member [[people:Rune Spaans]].