====== Winter Gold ======
**//Winter Gold//** is a [[super_nintendo_entertainment_system|SNES]] 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 [[wp>Spaceballs_(demogroup)|Spaceballs]]' [[commodore_amiga|Amiga]] demo //[[yt>89wq5EoXy-0|Start of the Art]]// (NB: flashing graphics), and they share a programmer, [[Paul Endresen]] (AKA: Lone Starr). The developer, [[Funcom]], was founded by, and hired many people from the European demoscene.\\ 
The menu background copies the 'dancing girl' motif found in //State of the Art//, made by tracing pre-recorded video with vectors. In //Winter Gold// the course 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 [[sony_playstation|PlayStation]] game, and the sparse, considered use of colour and lighting recall //[[mirrors_edge|Mirror's Edge]]//. Effectively the game is 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) & [[yt>jwE_I_id8Nc|Youtube]].\\ The credits listed on Wikipedia((Actually, the Wikipedia article has since been deleted, re-added, moved, a million times)) and MobyGames are less complete.

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

===== See Also =====
  * [[yt>rySAYiWTjbE|Winter Gold - Super Nintendo - Intro & Gameplay from all six events FX2 (PAL Exclusive) [4K]]] - Video showing different stages and events.
  * [[https://www.superrune.com/gallery/wintergold.php|Winter Gold SNES Game]] - Page on the game's creation, by staff member [[Rune Spaans]].

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