Aglæca

Controls:
Left/Right/Up/Down: Move around the map, change menu selection
Space: Wait half a day.
Enter/Return: Make menu selection
Escape: Quit the game

Inspired by the oldest monster in English-language literature, and by a modern retelling of his story.

Mac and Windows builds available, as well as ruby source. To run from source you need Ruby 2.x, and Bundler. You can then install the dependencies required with 'bundle install' from the game's directory.

Once those requirements are met, the command 'ruby ld33.rb' from inside the game directory should launch the game.

There was not much time to test this after completion.
Bugs can be reported at: https://bitbucket.org/philomory/ld33/issues

Credits:
Code:
Adam Gardner

Some text excerpted from:
Grendel, by John Gardner

Artwork:
Tiles from Tiny16: Basic, by Lanea Zimmerman.
http://opengameart.org/content/tiny-16-basic
Grendel sprite from the DawnLike tileset by DragonDePlatino, color pallete by DawnBringer
http://opengameart.org/content/dawnlike-16x16-universal-rogue-like-tileset-v181
(the requested easter egg is not yet implemented)

Fonts:
Alagard, by Pix3M
http://opengameart.org/content/pixel-fonts-by-pix3m
Romulus, by Pix3M
http://opengameart.org/content/pixel-fonts-by-pix3m