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New Features On The GOLDEN COMPASS Website! Want To Meet Your Daemon?!
Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.
Sweeeeeeeet. My daemon is evidently a tiger daemon named Voltina, one of 104 tiger Daemons within the total Daemon population of 957. I’m not sure I think the personality test you have to take to play the game nailed me, but it is only 20 questions, and besides... it’s a freakin’ tiger. I’m cool with that.
If you’re not sure what the hell I’m talking about, you might want to check out my visit to the set of THE GOLDEN COMPASS, where I lay out what this project’s all about. I think it’s good to see that New Line is doing more than slapping up a poster or a trailer for this film. They’ve got to get the audience educated and involved, and an interactive experience like this is a nice start. Here’s hoping they have a lot more of this up their sleeve between now and December.
Check it out:
New Line Cinema has launched a new interactive feature called “Meet Your Daemon” on its official website for the upcoming film The Golden Compass. The Golden Compass is scheduled for a Dec. 7, 2007 release.
“Meet Your Daemon” allows users to discover exactly what daemon (pronounced dee-mon) best represents their personality, and then allows them to take their uniquely created daemon avatar with them by embedding it on their own website or MySpace page, using it as their AIM logo, or downloading it as desktop wallpaper.
"This feature lets you personally experience one of the most unique and engaging elements of THE GOLDEN COMPASS," says Gordon Paddison, Executive Vice President, New Media Marketing. "You can identify your daemon and then share it with your friends and social networks on a variety of digital platforms."
In the world of The Golden Compass, a person’s soul lives on the outside of their body in the form a daemon, an animal spirit that accompanies them through life. A child’s daemon can change shape, assuming all the forms that a child’s potential inspires; but as a person ages, their daemon gradually settles into one form, according to their character and nature. For example, a person with a dog daemon would tend to follow authority, whereas one with a cat daemon would tend to be more independent.
Visitors to The Golden Compass website can discover who their daemon is by answering 20 personality profile questions. Based on their answers, a unique daemon is created for them with its own name and characteristics designed to reflect the user’s real-life personality. As an added bonus, users can also have their friends answer the personality questions about them and see what daemon represents them in their friends’ eyes.
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Apparently I am an Ocelot, very nice! Btw THATS how you do a website they must have spent a bomb on that very cool.
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I'm a little worried they're targeting this film at people who can't read...
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Oooh. I'm an Ocelot Wildcat Daemon called Lysandra. And this still looks like an unimaginative adaptation.
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Cool! I have a Hare, just like Lee Scoresby! Nice feature.
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Fuck yeah!
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So there.
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lots of people coming up Ocelot what does it say about the people that frequent this site.
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Ariel, a female Spider....shy, clever and proud...they nailed me those creey bastards at New Line did..
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Mine's a peacock, called Elpis.
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Nice looking site. The narration is annoying, unless you're sight-impaired.
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How shall we decide who keeps the daemon, Moriarty? One word... cagematch.
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named Parsaon. watch out!
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The big blue pretty ones are male and it states that Daemons are the opposite sex.
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Better retake.
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I'm just one of the crowd, might as well have made it a sheep. Liked the books, think the films could be great especially if they don't try and cut out all the Paradise Lost connections and actually make it intellectual. Not that I understood any of that intellectual stuff personally, but you know.... trying to sound like I did.
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Haven't read the books at all, but the film looks kind of interesting...
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I am glad mine was cool. I almost killed myself when the Harry Potter site sorted me into Hufflepuff.
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Wolf daemons rock!! Can't wait for the movie as I loved the books.
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Aww nuts, I'm an ocelot too.
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Brienne, one of 1322 wildcats -_-
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eat it
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will take all you ocelots on!
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There may be quite a strong selection effect operating here. Presumably pigeon Daemons don't post on forums. Strangely my Ocelot is identical in appearance to my real cat.
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Not so bad until reading talkbalk.
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A Raven. Name of Clymonistra. Pretty naff.
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I'm pleased. With a name that sounds like Hyena. They nailed me.
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But they need to figure out something to DO with the Alethiometer part.You should be able to put questions to it and watch the black hand waver about.
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