Oh Deer!

An indestructible, teleporting deer is causing chaos in a version of the Grand Theft Auto V game.

21:20 29 March 2016

Artist Brent Watanabe has programmed an indestructible, teleporting deer in a version of the Grand Theft Auto V game. In its first few days wandering around the large San Andreas game world, the deer was caught in a gangland gun battle, invaded a military base and been chased by the police.

 

Talking about his creation, which proved to be very popular to gamers, Mr Watanabe said: "The most difficult thing during the creation of the project was simply teaching myself to modify GTA V. There is an incredibly active modding community and I figured out how to programme the mod through a lot of forum searches and trial and error.

 

"The biggest difficulty was getting it stable enough to run for 12-14 hours at a time without crashing,"

 

The deer was purposely designed to be impervious that it can keep on wandering despite being regularly shot at, beaten up, run over by cars and trucks, shelled by tanks and falling off buildings.

 

Mr. Watanabe added: "I was really drawn to the project because of the slapstick but tragic nature of it. And then there is an odd draw to simply keep watching, to see what the deer is going to do next."