of staff: Mochizuki Jet, Klein, and Jinno Masaki. Kazuya Takase from I've Sound composed the songs in Snow, while Famishin composed the background music (BGM). According to the liner notes on the original soundtrack of Snow, the producers acknowledged that the game's structure resembled Key's visual novels Kanon and Air. Yūichi Suzumoto, who is known for his work on various Key games, worked as an assistant writer for Snow. The setting of the game, Ryūjin-mura, was modeled after the real village Ryūjin in Wakayama Prefecture. On January 31, 2003, Snow was released as both a CD-ROM and DVD-ROM compatible to the Windows 98/ME/2000/XP operating systems. An all-ages version for the Dreamcast was released by Interchannel on September 25, 2003. Later on February 26, 2004, Interchannel ported the game to the PlayStation 2 in both limited and regular editions; the PS2 port adds an additional scenario for Meiko Tachibana who was a supporting character in prior releases of Snow. A fully voiced version was released for Windows on September 24, 2004. Then on September 29, 2006, Snow: Plus Edition was released for Windows, sporting added parts from the console versions and introducing a new heroine. A version of the game for NTT DoCoMo FOMA cell phones was released by Prototype on VisualArt's Motto on October 27, 2006. A PlayStation Portable version of the game called Snow: Portable was released by Prototype on August 16, 2007. The standard edition for Windows was released on July 25, 2008, including a dark version of the game called Ankoku Snow which was originally released with the Studio Mebius fan disc Mebinya! Mebius Fandisc, and the content from the portable edition of Snow. A downloadable version of the PSP edition was made available on the PlayStation Store by Prototype on January 21, 2010. Snow became playable on Android on November 17, 2015. Related media Books and publications Five adult light novels written by Hangetsu Mitamura and published by Paradigm were released between June 2003 and January 2004. The cover art and internal illustrations were drawn by Asuka Pyon, the artist who drew the artwork in the visual novel. The first novel, titled , was released on June 25, 2003. The second novel was released on July 25, 2003, titled . The third novel, titled , was released on September 20, 2003, focusing on Ryūjin-mura's legend. The fourth novel, titled , was released on November 22, 2003.