- Version 1.151 - Extra Save Slots - 30 October 2025
Deer Gamers!It's approaching the 1st anniversary of Reindeer Story... just two days away I can't believe how quickly it came! To celebrate I've released a guide on obtain all the endings of Reindeer Story, check it out! In addition I've released a new version of Reindeer Story. Version 1.151 the key change in this version is a big increase in save slots! New is a "Next" button which will appear on the title screen load menu and in the pause menu. Pressing Next will cycle through 5 pages of 6 save slots... adding up to 30! This jump from 7 save slots to 30 should give a lot more flexibility in saving the game and collecting all the games endings.Functionality Update Increased the number of save slots to 30.A "Next" Option appears on both the title screen's and pause screen Save Menus. This will move through 5 pages of saves with 6 saves on each page (for convenience the autosave slot wil…
- Patch 1.15 - 21 October 2025
Deer Gamers... Boo! It's October, spooky month ooo~ One Spooky thing is I updated Gamemaker Studio 2 for the first time since 2022 and had to update Reindeer Story to a new project type...Which is fraught with terror, and the looming spectre of previously working code functioning differently... ooo~ ːsteammockingːTo be on the safe side I've done a full playthrough of Reindeer Story and tried to test as much as possible, the overworld, battles, menus, scenes, the quest system, endings work. So the update seems to have went fine! I've also re-re-visited the Snowmobile! Making some further changes to make it easier to control. I reduced the speed slightly, but also this time made the acceleration more gradual, and limited the top speed while turning. This way when you do need to make strong turns the snowmobile speed is slowed significantly so make those high-speed turns more manageable! B…
- Patch 1.41 - 9 August 2025
Deer Gamers! Just another small patch. v1.4 improved the games performance while displaying the minimap in big rooms. But after releasing v1.4 I was reviewing the minimap code and thought of a way to make it more efficient in general. Previously the minimap was drawn square by square which was very inefficient as it was drawing ~1600-2500 squares on the screen each frame. It's now done row-by-row in a few rectangles based on the terrain. In practice it appears the same as before, but behind the scenes it's about 10x more efficient. QoL Improved the performance of the minimap. Thanks for playing, Azzie
- Patch 1.14 - 5 August 2025
Deer Gamers! Just a quick update to fix a reported bug and a performance improvement to the minimaps introduced in the last version. QoL Fixed an issue which caused the Minimap to be more performance intensive than necessary in bigger rooms. In v1.13 the minimap was processing the entire room when updating positions of objects, causing it to be more performance intensive the bigger the room was. This has been changed to refreshing just slightly wider than size of the Minimap to improve performance and ensure big rooms aren't more performance intensive. Bug Fixes Fixed a bug where after the escape sequence at the end of Chapter 5 if the player gets a Gameover in the overworld (e.g. reaching 0 HP by falling down a pit, or getting hit by a hazard) during a the same play session the game would inappropriately present the 'Retry' option on the gameover screen. Retry in battle would still cor…
- Patch 1.13 - Minimaps ahoy! - 20 June 2025
Hi Deer Gamers!Reindeer Story is 7 months old now, over half a year! Time flies and I'm glad to announce two nice milestones of over 150 copies sold (close to 170) and 10 positive reviews! Maybe not reached quite as fast as I've hoped but I'm glad to reach these milestones especially outside of the holiday season! Thank you for the support! ːsteamhappyːHopefully I can reach 200 copies by November and 250 or maybe even 300 by the end of the year :)On the RPG front Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Deltarune's Chapter 3 & 4 came out since the release of Reindeer Story. I've been having fun playing and beating them! But without further adieu, a new version of Reindeer Story has been released with a new feature, a Minimap! New FunctionalityMinimap If you press Select (controller) or Backspace (Keyboard) in the overworld a minimap appears! You can toggle between a small minimap, a larger minim…
- Reindeer Story - Cloud Saves! - 12 June 2025
Hi Deer Gamers,Long time no speak! I've recently updated Reindeer Story to use Steam Cloud your saves should now be able to be accessed across multiple PCs! ːsteamhappyːI'm also currently working on updates to Reindeer Story based on feedback. I'm aiming to release v1.13 by the end of the month! v1.13 will include the option to bring up a minimap in the game to help navigate the world and helps you spot treasures and cherubs to collect! It also shows different terrain elevation! Very Handy! So please look forward to it :) Thank you to everyone for supporting the game! A special thanks for the surge of recent new players! Possibly from the RPG direct, possibly via Deltarune's "more like this" (I had a little bit of a wishlist jump on the 4th so cheers Toby Fox ːsteamthumbsupː ). I'm grateful for the support and hope you all continue to enjoy Reindeer Story! If you enjoy Reindeer Story pl…
- Patch 1.12 - Jukebox update - 11 January 2025
Hi Deer Gamers! I've released version 1.12 of Reindeer Story! As with last time, I'm aiming to use January to apply changes based on feedback from the community and reviews! This patch introduces a new option on the Title Screen, 'Options' which replaces 'Steam'. On the Options you can set the Text Speed and Volume Settings. Any settings set while the titlescreen will carry across to, New Game+ or Load Game saves. If no options are set then the game will use the defaults when starting a new game, or when loading a save it will load that save's previous settings. I've added a Juke Box to the ground floor Five Gold Rings Hotel in Sweet Street, where you you can listen to the game's music! This will be available once you reach chapter 4. I hope everyone enjoys listening to the game's soundtrack! New Functionality Replaced the Steam option on the title screen with Options. Added a Juke box…
- Patch 1.11 - Snowmobile Adjustments - 2 January 2025
Happy New Year Deer Gamers! Hope you all had a great holiday! It's a new year with new goals. I'm aiming to use January to work through the feedback for Reindeer Story and make as many changes as possible to improve the experience! This patch is focused on the Snowmobile, there were a lot of critiques regarding the speed and control. Changes have been made to enhance the level of control the player has over the snowmobile and address the issues. Please let me know what you think of the changes! Changes have been made to slightly reduce the speed of the Snowmobile and dampen the effect of turning as the vehicle speeds up to make high speed controls feel less volatile. Functionality has been added when holding Accelerate and Break at the same time on the Snowmobile. It will have the snowmobile accelerate or decelerate to a slower fixed speed comparable to Lux's running speed with strong t…
- Patch v1.10 - 27 December 2024
Deer Gamers, Just a small bugfix relating to one of the game's endings Bugfixes * Fixed a bug where after getting the Starflake Rebirth ending the player's current plotbranch would not be reset correctly preventing the player fighting Jack Frost again after continuing the same save file. *Fixed a bug where the the doorway in the final battle location would not lead back to the hallway. QoL * Any save file which had the Starflake Rebirth save will shift back to the intended plot branch upon loading the game (this will fix any save impacted by the bug with continuing after the Ending). Thanks for playing -Azzie
- Merry Christmas! - 25 December 2024
Merry Christmas Deer Gamers! I got a few Christmas presents today, but the best one is seeing the results of Reindeer Story's launch! Between Steam and Itch.io it's reached over 100 sales (nearly 110, though with steam doing the heavy lifting lol) and every review has been positive on Steam, Every review 5 stars on Itch! For my first commercial game it puts a tear to my eye really! It means a lot to me that people thought it was worth buying and speaking to a number of players there's some who played through it fully, New Game+ and getting all 9 Endings! I made a lot of content for Reindeer Story and one thing I was afraid of was people not experiencing the whole thing, but for some people to experience the full thing in the first year is great! I truly appreciate it! Thank you, I hope you all have a really great Christmas and I hope you continue to enjoy Reindeer Story every Winter! -…
- Reindeer Story - December Seasonal Items! - 4 December 2024
Hi Deer Players, Tis the Season! Secretly in the last update I've added three special green present boxes which only appear available during the month of December! These are the only of their kind in their game so you'll know when you've found them! These are the Yule Horns, Yule Rod and Yule claws ! They are all in locations accessible once you reach Chapter 4! I won't name the locations but here's cropped screens to give a hint where to search. Thanks for supporting the game, I've been blown away by the response! I hope you all enjoy playing Reindeer Story over the holiday season and beyond! :) Thanks, Azzie!
- Patch 1.09! - 25 November 2024
Hi Deer Gamers! A new set of bugfixes and amendments have been made to improve the play experience of Reindeer Story. As always thanks for playing! Bugfixes Fixed a bug where after getting the Doom Breaker ending and saving a game completion save file continuing that save file would spawn you on a bottomless pit endlessly. Saving the game will now set the right co-ordinates For the above, loading a Doom Breaker completion file will adjust your position onto the intended position if the game spawns you in a pit on that screen. Fixed a bug which caused the game to crash when using the bed in the House in Toy Town with a toy unicorn. Fixed a bug which caused it to be possible to interact with objects such as the checkpoint flags while in the pause menu. Fixed a bug where opening a gate with a key would drastically reduce the distance needed to interact with other objects in the room such a…
- Patch v1.08 - 21 November 2024
Hi Deer Gamers! Just a follow up todays earlier patch the first was covered in version 1.071 but figured I'd include it here officially! Due to an oversight in the games script files interacting with the Naughty & Nice text option. This lead to certain lines of dialogue being duplicated in game, this didn't affect much of the games texthowever because this would affect every playthrough I prioritised getting this out ASAP rather than as v1.08 as the other fix was fairly time consuming. The second was a pretty tricky crash in the Equipment menu! After equipping an item or backing out from the equipment/item panes there was a 1/30th of a second (2 frames) where the players inventory and equipment menu display was being adjusted by the game. In the previous version moving the cursor in certain ways and pressing confirm during this tiny window would cause the game to get confused which sub-…
- Patch v1.071 - duplicate dialogue fix - 21 November 2024
Hi Deer Players, A bit of a quick patch, It was reported some of the game's dialogue in a few scenes and general NPC dialogue was duplicated fairly late in the game. I scoured over the scripts and using some excel features to identify these duplicates and some others and corrected these! Big Apologies to players affected by this. Otherwise there hasn't been any changes to the games code for this version. However I am currently working on a v1.08 which will release some point this week. Thanks for playing, Azzie
- Patch 1.07! - 19 November 2024
Hi Deer players! Just deploying another small patch to improve the general gameplay experience. I've solved a couple of very situational soft-locks and an issue surrounding Lux's nose glow in the overworld sometimes appearing on the battle screen! Functionality Change If you trigger a scene while being chased by an enemy in the overworld they will stop chasing you and move back to their initial position. This is to prevent certain enemies from moving and waiting at the players position during the scene an triggering an unavoidable battle once the scene completes! Bugfixes Fixed a bug where if you charged up Lux's nose in the overworld and enter a battle the glow would sometimes appear on the battle zone. This usually happened in very small rooms as the glow would appear the same co-ordinates in battle as Lux was in the room (so in bigger rooms it would not be visible as it'd often be of…
- Patch v1.06! - 18 November 2024
Hi Deer Players, Another week another new version! This time there's two minor bugs reported with mimic present boxes and a repeatable triggered battle in Chapter 3. Bugfixes * Fixed a bug that made it possible to open present boxes you're standing next to on the overworld, while the pause screen is open. * The above fixes a glitch in previous versions. Where if you open the menu screen you save your game while next to a Mimic present boxes. It would trigger the battle and then the game would softlock afterwards. Reloading the save you made would reload before the battle but with the chest open leading to lost rewards. * Fixed a bug in Chapter 3 on the Toy Town screen with the Item and Equipment shops. In previous versions If you speak to one of the two Mouse Guards that trigger battles, win the battle, then immediately talk to them the game would softlock. *The above was due to an over…
- Patch 1.05! - 10 November 2024
Hi Deer Players, A week after launch and I'm still to see more positive reviews and a fairly good start in terms of players! I've got a few changes and tweaks for v1.05 based on some bug reports, and some oddities I've discovered myself while testing the bug fixes. Functionality Changes In previous versions if you could get down into the lower level of the colosseum screen in Autumn Arena there was an invisible wall I placed between the ledge and the lower level but it was found jumping at a certain position can sometimes allow the player to fall through it, causing a softlock. Removed the invisible wall between the upper and lower levels of the Colosseum in Autumn Arena. Made it possible to leave the lower portion of the Colosseum in Autumn Arena, except during the Joust Minigames and when collecting the Grand Present. Added missing music to the Joust at Autumn Arena. Changed Minigame…
- Patch 1.04! - 4 November 2024
Hi Deer Players! Thank you for playing Reindeer Story! Four days into release and I'm very happy to see that people are leaving feedback! In addition the review sites which covered it were very positive too! Thanks to a topic raised in the community I've just released patch 1.04. Which is a small change with a big impact! Prior to this version if you got a Game Over and selected 'Continue' from the menu instead of 'Retry' it would load the latest autosave but not the game's text. This has now been fixed! notes below: Bugfix * Fixed a bug where after a receiving gameover and selecting continue the game's general dialogue and scene dialogue would not be reloaded into the game and would display as blank yellow boxes, or not display at all (during scenes). That's all for now, thanks for the support! And please raise any feedback as it helps catch issues like these! Thanks for playing! Azzie
- Reindeer Story is here! - 1 November 2024
Hi Deer Fan! It's the 1st of November! After 4 years of hard work the development Reindeer Story has been completed, and is now available to play! I've gave my all into ensuring the game is as fun and content-packed as I can! I hope the full release ends up being something that can bring you a lot of joy for many years! Once you've played it I would love to hear what you think about it! This is my first commercial game and I'm always looking to improve as a developer, feedback is vital! If you have any thoughts and are able to do so, please leave a review or post a comment of what you think! Based on feedback provided I'll be continuing to update this game to ensure it's the best it can be! Thank you for all the support! Azzie
- Reindeer Story Eve - 31 October 2024
Hi Deer Fans! It's Halloween! but importantly it's also Reindeer Story Eve! As we exit the spooky month and approach the holiday season Reindeer Story release will mark that moment! After 4 challenging years of development Reindeer Story has been completed, and will be releasing tomorrow on the 1st of November. I'll be releasing it about 8 hours from now after I wake up early. It's been a long journey and I've learnt a lot developing this game! I'd like to thank everyone who's played the game, gave feedback, or even wishlisted the game! I'd like to thank anyone who stumbles across the game for the first time for their interest! I hope the full game ends up being something that can bring you a lot of joy! ːsteamhappyː I would love to hear what everyone thinks about it! I'm always looking to improve as a developer, so I'm open to feedback so please do provide reviews or post a thread in t…
