Reindeer Story — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
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| Version 1.151 - Extra Save Slots | 2025-10-30 | 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 endin |
| Patch 1.15 | 2025-10-21 | 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 spee |
| Patch 1.41 | 2025-08-09 | 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 | 2025-08-05 | 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 |
| Patch 1.13 - Minimaps ahoy! | 2025-06-20 | 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 ne |
| Reindeer Story - Cloud Saves! | 2025-06-12 | 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 |
| Patch 1.12 - Jukebox update | 2025-01-11 | 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, |
| Patch 1.11 - Snowmobile Adjustments | 2025-01-02 | 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 con |
| Patch v1.10 | 2024-12-27 | 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! | 2024-12-25 | 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 e |
| Reindeer Story - December Seasonal Items! | 2024-12-04 | 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! | 2024-11-25 | 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 |
| Patch v1.08 | 2024-11-21 | 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 |
| Patch v1.071 - duplicate dialogue fix | 2024-11-21 | 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! | 2024-11-19 | 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 ent |
| Patch v1.06! | 2024-11-18 | 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 Chapte |
| Patch 1.05! | 2024-11-10 | 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 |
| Patch 1.04! | 2024-11-04 | 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 wou |
| Reindeer Story is here! | 2024-11-01 | 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 up |
| Reindeer Story Eve | 2024-10-31 | 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 ful |
| Merry Christmas in July! New Reindeer Story Demo! | 2024-07-25 | Hey Deer Fans! Merry Christmas... in July! Tis the season to be jolly! falalala lala la la! brand new demo, Reindeer Story! falalala lala la la! Now replacing the the prototype is a whole new demo for Reindeer Story! This new demo covers the prologue and chapter 1 of Reindeer Story, in addition to a number of optional areas including The North Pole! Any progression made in the demo will be transferred to the Full Game when it's released on the 1st of November 2024! So have fun, and be a deer in Reindeer Story! And always remember Merry Christmas... in July! Azzie |
| Christmas in July! New Demo Coming this Thursday! | 2024-07-22 | Deer Reindeer Fans! I'm glad to announce a new demo of Reindeer Story is coming on the 25th of July! Celebrate Christmas in July with the new Demo. This demo will cover the Prologue and Chapter 1 of Reindeer Story! Get to experience the game's opening content and explore Mt. Fairesteppe and the Snowzone. Any progress on the demo will carry forward to the main game's release on the 1st of November! Thanks, Azzie |
| Marching toward Release! (In November) | 2024-03-22 | You better watch out, you better not cry because Reindeer Story is coming to town! I’m happy to announce Reindeer Story is leaping and bounding forward a whole month to a new release date of 1st November 2024! It’s been a tough road since May 2020 when I started development. Over the last 4 years I’ve put a lot of passion into designing the unique gameplay, characters and story! The goal line is just over the horizon now! If you’re looking for a fun, action-filled RPG to play it would behoove you to wishlist it! (I’d really appreciate it thank you!) ːsteamhappyː The full game will be $7.99. A regular playthrough of the main story will be appr |
| Demo update v1.07 | 2023-03-11 | This demo update overhauls the game visually and contains many improvements made designing the full game now applied to the Prototype Demo! This list contains most major changes, but there may be many unreported adjustments and improvements made in this version! Enjoy! Regarding the updated controllers in addition to the already supported Xbox 360 controller. The Xbox Series X controller and the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller have been tested! I changed it to support all controllers supported by Gamemaker Studio 2 so I imagine there's much wider support. If you're using a different controller type could you check it works? Graphical Changes - |