hackerspace-ntnu / temple-trashers

A couch co-op tower defense game developed by Hackerspace NTNU.

"Temple Trashers" is a couch co-op tower defense game, in which the towers you build can hurt you and your friends just as much as they can hurt your enemies. Build towers, aim them towards your foes and collect the crystals that drop in order to build more turrets and survive the endless hordes of enemies!

The game was developed by the "Prosjekt: Spill" group of the Hackerspace NTNU student organization over the span of 2 years. The project is open-source and free for all who are interested. For other projects and information, take a look at Hackerspace's website.

In 2022, Temple Trashers was nominated for the "Most Innovative Game Design" award at the Norwegian Game Awards!

Relevant pages

• Steam
• Itch.io

Development, feedback and issues

Although active official development on this project has concluded as per the Hackerspace NTNU guidelines, the core team members retain access for managing the Github, Steam and Itch.io pages, and are free to continue developing - at their own volition.

If you have found a bug, or want to provide feedback or come with a suggestion, please create an issue.

If you want to contribute to this game's development yourself, feel free to fork this project and create a pull request!

The team used Trello for our agile development process, and our Trello board is publicly open.

Team members (at time of release)

Developers

• Anders Hovden
• Fredrik Eiding
• Jesper Norsted
• Sondre Husøy
• Thomas Jakob Gabrielsen

Designers

• Ingvild Mjelva
• magsve

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Development guide

temple-trashers's Issues

Players can remote control towers when respawned bug

In the case where a player has respawned on an axe tower's "shooting line", they are for some reason able to rotate the tower from anywhere on the map until they focus another tower.

Death event for golem

Animation or explosion

Indicate loot enemy

Maybe only have dancing skeletons drop crystals?

Players can walk out of bounds

Bug found by Alex. Walking all the way out of the map makes the screen go blue or something.

"Generate Terrain" Doesn't work

The HexGrid prefab doesn't properly generate terrain.

The problem seems to be related to the script halting when trying to generate border-tiles.
The terrain doesn't seem to generate new decor because of the same problem.

Players who took control of tower should keep it

Canging who focuses a tower is not intuitive and leads to confusion

Loot crystal gamepad helper UI too small

Pauseing, the clicking continue causes game over UI to be non-interactable with controller

The game works as intended when pausing, and then again resumeing with the the pause button, but if a player pauses, then presses interact to continue, the game over scren can't be interacted with by controller anymore.

Hitbox and chase distance too big

The enemies are just a bit too relentless in terms of chasing the players, and they often manage to hit players from an "unfair" distance.

This issue was based on feedback recieved from players at Spillexpo

Strongman idle animation doesn't loop properly

Permanent slow-mo bug

If a player quits to menu while game is slowed, the game will be permanently slowed until base dies again.

Blinking eye effect in main menu and credits is gone

For some reason, it seems the blinking red eye background effect from #131 is not working in develop.

/edit/update
The reason seems to be that eyes won't appear in menus when the screen aspect rations isn't excactly 16:9