Deer Diplomacy
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A stealth puzzle in Nara Deer Park: bow to the deer, feed them rice crackers, and get out before the herd notices you have food.
Official site deer-diplomacy.vercel.app, verified Nov 3, 2026. Entry URL submitted in the official Vibe Jam 2026 games data under the X handle imshubham31 (display name Shubham Pandey). The game page links the GitHub repository sp35/deer-diplomacy, and the website field of that X profile is github.com/sp35.
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Browser (no download) · Mobile · Official link verified Nov 3, 2026.
About Deer Diplomacy
A 3D stealth puzzle game in the browser set in Nara Deer Park in Japan. You play a tourist with a few senbei rice crackers: walk up to a deer, hold a bow, wait while it watches you, and when it bows back, feed it. Once the herd notices you have food it turns on you, and you can raise your hands to calm an angry deer while you try to reach the exit with crackers to spare. The game has a short campaign of levels such as The Bridge, The Courtyard, The Festival and The Shrine Steps, a randomised daily challenge and per-level leaderboards, and it plays with WASD and keys on a computer or an on-screen joystick on phones. The entrant explains that the real deer in Nara bow back when tourists bow to them, and that the game turns this into a stealth puzzle in which every bow is a 1.5-second window of vulnerability; the page footer says it was built after a trip to Nara. It was made for the Cursor Vibe Jam 2026, whose rules required at least 90% of each game's code to be written by AI; the official submission lists Claude Code as the tool. It finished 419th of 945 entries. Free in the browser.
How it was built
Partially verifiedIn the official Vibe Jam 2026 submission the entrant lists Claude Code as the tool and answers Yes to the AI-written field. No devlog describes how Claude Code was used or which model ran it, and the submission covers the jam version only.
- OfficialJam rule 3: at least 90% of the code has to be written by AI. — Vibe Jam (Pieter Levels)
Built for the Cursor Vibe Jam 2026 on Three.js, with Claude Code named as the tool. The game page links a GitHub repository (sp35/deer-diplomacy); the leaderboards and the daily challenge are served by the game's own backend.
- Engine / framework
- Three.js
- Languages
- Not disclosed
- Team size
- Not disclosed
- Development time
- Not disclosed
- Development cost
- Not disclosed
- AI-written code
- Not disclosed
“The real deer in Nara, Japan actually bow back when tourists bow to them. The game turns this charming real world interaction into a tense stealth puzzle where every bow is a 1.5 second window of vulnerability.”Verification notes: Tool (Claude Code), engine (ThreeJS), genre (Puzzle), pitch, inspiration and the multiplayer (No), mobile (Yes) and portal (Yes) flags from the entrant's answers in the official Vibe Jam 2026 games data (submitted 11 Apr 2026, 01:28 UTC; final rank 419 of 945 entries, no award), re-read on 5 Nov 2026; rule 3 on the jam page requires at least 90% AI-written code. Developer: the jam data gives the X handle imshubham31, whose profile name is Shubham Pandey (bio: building ontross.com, formerly at LaunchDarkly, BITS Pilani alumnus); the profile's website field is github.com/sp35 and its location Bengaluru, India (website and location from a copy of the profile read on 5 Nov 2026). The game page links the repository github.com/sp35/deer-diplomacy; the repository itself could not be opened from our network, so its contents were not checked. Team size is not stated. Levels, controls, the daily challenge and leaderboards come from the game's page and script; the game was not played through. The game's code was checked for calls to AI services and none were found. The jam page's widget counters were not checked for this game. The release date is not stated; the jam submission is dated 11 Apr 2026 (UTC).
Development history
Entered in the Cursor Vibe Jam 2026 (submission date in the official games data, 01:28 UTC); the jam required at least 90% AI-written code. Final rank 419 of 945 entries, no award.
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Sources
| Source | Type | Published | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cursor Vibe Jam 2026 — rules, prizes and game stats Vibe Jam (Pieter Levels) | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Vibe Jam 2026 games data (entrant submissions, final rank, awards) Vibe Jam | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Deer Diplomacy — A stealth arcade game set in Nara Deer Park (game page and script) Shubham Pandey | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Shubham Pandey (@imshubham31) — X profile X | Social post | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Official game page (language check) Shubham Pandey | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
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