WEB CONTENT

One of the coolest things about Daemon_9 was all of the loosely-connected, ancillary websites that provided additional game play, background material, and essential information to help you navigate through the game.

I’ve preserved some of that material below. Some are just static images of the web sites, but others are a re-creation of the website itself, fully explorable with mulitple pages. There’s no true game interactivity anymore, but you can still explore the content.

There were a few others, but these seven were the primary sites in both the original and Steam versions of the game.


SaveMorganShane.org

In the original version, this was the “home base” for the game. On your first visit you would see the preamble and then be briefly taken out of the story to a pay portal. But afterwards, you were promptly deposited back to this site to explore. Depending on your interaction with the site and time spent on it, things would “happen.”

In the Steam version, it was simply a repository of additional info that you found by following a link within the game.

Here you’ll find a re-creation of the original version (although some of the dates may not jive, due to the two release windows).

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GUI Microsystems

GUI is the Chinese tech giant that is at the root of the story. This is their official corporate website. Their flagship mircoprocessor, the D9, has found its way into the majority of computers and laptops around the world, providing an exploitable weakness in our data security. They’re even in bed with the U.S. government. This site is fully fleshed out with product pages, leadership profiles, press releases and even a stock ticker of real, current share prices with GUI inserted into the mix.

There’s a back door that you can access through a special link. (Can you spot it?) This is a portal into the dark netherworld in which you might find Morgan — but first you need to figure out the username and password.

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Angels of kOs

(Chaos. Get it?) The is the website of a white hat hacker vigilante group that targets corporate giants and other assorted citadels of power. Milos is loosely affiliated with them and you’ll find some more info about him here, as well as about GUI (in case you missed it elsewhere).

In the original version, you also downloaded a piece of virus detection software that can protect you from whatever is inside GUI’s D9 chip (which they would also confirm is somewhere inside your computer).

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CloakChat

This is a dark web video chat site — the only one trusted by guys like Adam and Milos who need to stay off the grid. But you have to know the username of the party you want to reach to establish a connection, and those usernames are usually changed after each use.

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Vista Education Group

The website of the private corporation that owned Colfax College, where Morgan, Anna and all their friends attended. They also have a mysterious link to GUI, who might be behind the shutdown of the campus ISP after Anna’s murder threatens to blow back on them.

It’s not functional here, but if you clicked on the CONTACT page and sent an email to the person listed there, you”d get a cryptic response with an additional clue to follow. Also, at some point in the middle of your visit, their listing for Colfax College will disappear from the site (and still does here).

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Spy TV

A British cable TV network (a play on the real-life Sky network in the U.K.). They’re the producers of the series “Stalking Evil” — a segment of which is viewable on this page. If you were patient and watched it all the way through, you would not only learn key information, but you might even get a message from Morgan.

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Global News Network

A faux news site that would periodically send you updates with articles that were relevant to your place in the D9 story. It looked real to the point of displaying the current date and time in your part of the world, and a link to current headlines of other articles.

There were seven different articles that might appear, depending on your place and success in the game:

• The report on the mass murder at the GUI plant in China that started it all

• An article about a possible FBI coverup of GUI crimes

• If you fail to save Morgan, you can learn about her death in one of three ways:

— This article about her body suddenly appearing on a street in Guangzhou, China

— This on about her body being fished out of Shanghai harbor

— Or this one about her dismembered remains being found in a Chinese industrial park

• And lastly, if you succeed in saving the world, you will see these two video reports:

GUI in ruins and its CEO Tai Qiang being carted away in handcuffs

Evil hacker Milos apprehended by Interpol

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Facebook & Wikipedia

Try as I might, I couldn’t get fake game content onto these popular sites. So I mocked up actual pages and saved these images of them, the premise being that they were too controversial to keep live, but Adam managed to screen-shot them before they were taken down.

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The “Creepouts”

At any time throughout the game, no matter where you were in the story, certain things that I nicknamed “creepouts” might happen in your browser, depending on your progress. This page is a safe place for you to try them out.

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Other Web Content

Click on any of the images below to view some of the other visual content that was featured in one or both versions of Daemon_9.


Adam’s
Found Notes

News Article:
Highway Patrolmen
Killed

News Article:
Campus Murders

News Article:
Colfax Closure
Killed

News Article:
Highway Patrolmen
Killed

Police Report:
Anna Murder

Police Report:
Troopers
Killed

Dossier: Tai Qiang

Classified
FBI Email thread

Wikipedia
page for
Chiyou Zhou