Grand Theft Auto V has been invaded by an indestructible, teleporting deer created by artist Brent Watanabe.

Mr Watanabe modified his version of GTA V so that Twitch viewers can watch the virtual deer wandering around the large San Andreas game world.

Within a few days more than 200,000 viewers had tuned into to the video streaming service to view the deer creating havoc in the fictional state based on California.

"I was really drawn to the project because of the slapstick but tragic nature of it," Mr Watanabe told the BBC.

"And then there is an odd draw to simply keep watching, to see what the deer is going to do next."

In its first few days of wandering the virtual 100 square miles of San Andreas the death-proof deer has invaded a military base, been hunted by police and earned a five-star wanted rating.

"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.

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

The Twitch deer-cam, which can be temperamental, can be viewed above.

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