Be a Deer
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
The reindeer that was supposed to be brought into town for the upcoming holiday parade won’t arrive in time. The universe must have decided that there needs be a deer at the parade though, because you are going to replace it.
A very short (around 3 minutes) first-person reindeer transformation sequence made in 7 days for the 7DFPS game jam.
Controls:
- Left click: Advance text
- Right click or spacebar: Zoom
- Shift+M: Skip to animation viewer
- M: Hold to unlock the mouse (for using the animation viewer)
- N: Hide animation viewer UI
- Escape: Quit game
Credits:
- Parade music recorded by daveincamas, licensed under CC-BY 4.0.
- Silver font by Poppyworks, licensed under CC-BY 4.0.
- Chair model by gamekorp
- Door SFX by NachtmahrTV
- Wind SFX by lwdickens and guyburns
- Wood textures by 10Ravens and Lennart Demes
- Barn photo obtained from RawPixel, original by Carol Highsmith
- Deer model techniques inspired by the works of Chained_tan, and in particular their Korone model
Update 2/27: Added Mac build. (Untested)
2/26: Added POV muzzle growth, revised ending, and reduced parade music volume.
12/26: Added animation viewer, Windows 32bit + Linux builds.
1/11: Fixed a typo.
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Development log
- Small update!Feb 27, 2024
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this game got stupid from the start
Short but not bad. Made a video on it.
Does the entire world see her as a regular reindeer and she just doesn't realize she's not anthromorphic? Are anthromorphic animals normal in this world? Is Anna stuck like this forever and sent off to the zoo while her family thinks she's dead? I need answers dang it
(Very fun short experience, you can tell because it has caused me to become an overthinker, now make a sequel /j)
When making this I was thinking that the answers to those would be yes, no, and no, but I was far from having a very firm idea of how those answers would actually play out in the game’s story.
Though really, if you'd prefer to imagine that she's stuck like this, or that the reindeer that was meant to be brought in would have also been anthropomorphic or something, definitely feel free, haha
(...as for a sequel, well, I was strongly considering expanding this a bit after the jam to offer a few different endings based on choices in a short exploration segment set in the barn, but I'm not sure whether people would prefer that vs moving on to another project)
please expand this! it would make it even better than it already is!
I have have had deer on the mind to an extreme degree for the past few weeks and my next project will definitely be focused on transformation (for this upcoming game jam!), but I don't think it'll be directly connected to this one. Maybe I need to give this concept another go sometime though!
cool game
Thanks for spotting the "howp" typo in there!
As for why I tagged it as horror, while I know that a large portion of the people who follow me here would love to be in Anna's position, I felt like the average person clicking on this would think of her situation as something that's at least a little unsettling to be in, haha. I can totally remove the tag if you think it's misleading though!
It is probably fine to leave the horror tag. I personally don't find it scary but Kafkaesque horror is its own genre so it likely still counts. That and I think that Changed game with a similar transformation is also tagged as horror on Steam.
Good game
nice short
well... That truly was horrifying
How many minutes is the game?
Not many! Depending on your reading speed (and how much fun you can get out of watching your avatar swivel her head around as you move the camera), it’s probably 2-4 minutes at most.
(Once the debug menu/animation viewer is finished, you might be able to add another 1-2 on top of that.)