Daikon Hero

The brutal Onion Empire has been relentlessly trying to conquer and enslave the entire vegetable world. As a vegetable commando, you're the resistance's last best hope in ending this bitter war.

Play as one of three different vegetable commandos, and fight through procedurally-generated battlefields scarred with desperate trenches and pockmarked with ever increasing artillery craters to reach the mysterious onion general who has been leading the Onion forces.

7DRL: I made the game in 7 days for the 7DRL Challenge 2023 game jam, where participants try to make a roguelike game in a week. I approached this by making a modern non-traditional real-time action adventure with vegetables at war with each other. Trenches are pretty much dungeons with open tops that you can jump out of and duck down into for protection. I wanted to explore what it was like to have a proc-gen dungeon that dynamically changes over time.

NOTE: The settings menu and the quit button on the title screen don't work - press ESC to quit. 

POST-JAM TO-DO: There's a lot that I didn't get to make before the 7 jam days were up for me. There is no ending, no onion general boss, and no leveling up like I had originally planned. Also the were no shovels and tomato grenades - which the player would have used to carve their own trenches/craters too. There were also 2 other enemies (garlic and hot chili pepper) I made but they didn't make it into the final build for the jam. I didn't test beyond the 4th battle zone either, because my character always died in that zone.

If there's enough interest, I might make a full game out of this, but right now I need to rest and recover from the jam. It was grueling. I had started a completely different VR-based roguelike for the jam, but abandoned it and then made this.

For credits and attributions, please see the credits_and_attributions.txt file in the download.

Controls

ActionControlMoveWASD/Arrow keysJumpSpacebar (hold to jump higher)FireLeft clickReloadR key. Your weapon will automatically reload also if there is not enough loaded ammo to fireSneakShift to toggle sneaking. Use it to sneak behind enemies and attack. Firing, jumping, or reloading will exit sneak mode.Slow Motion / Bullet TimeRight click to toggle. Pick up blue lightning bolts to recharge some time. (Unfortunately, I didn't make it this regenerate on its own and the pickups are too rare.)Quit gameESC

TRIVIA: I sketched up the characters, guns, hatch in OpenBrush in VR, and then I cleaned them up, rigged/animated them in Blender, and brought them over to Unity. See the screenshots to see some of the characters that didn't make it into the final build.

Secret: You  can press the 'C' key to cause more artillery fire / craters on the map. The position of the artillery is random though, so for big maps it is hard to know that it happened.