Azurelore Korrigan
The administrator of this site and a Game-Maker author dating back to 1991, working under various personal and organizational names including Aderack, Eric-Jon Rössel Waugh, EJR Tairne, A-J Games, Don'Pan Software, Janet L. Groth Productions, and Jeneric Rules. Of these, the most prolific and possibly familiar label was A-J Games, a developer name derived from Korrigan's first game, A-J's Quest—which was in turn based on a comic strip featuring a neurotic anthropomorphized bear named Andrew-Jonathan. Under that label, in 1994, Korrigan produced several games for the CD-ROM release of Game-Maker 3.0.
During the 2010s, Korrigan swapped the A-J Games label for a run of (largely unfinished) games produced under the Jeneric Rules banner.
Other labels were employed to differentiate games that with less of a personal connection to Korrigan, with Don'Pan focusing on parody or games produced for friends and acquaintances, and Janet L. Groth lending anonymity for ventures into lewd satire.
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Game chronology
The following is a rough approximation of original release order, based on credited dates and a vague memory. Mind you, projects often overlapped or were put aside then resumed at a later date -- and many games were later revised, which alongside said vague memory can play havoc with accuracy. Don'Pan Software releases in boldface.
- A-J's Quest
- Cireneg's Rings
- Link vs. Gannon (unfinished)
- The Return of A-J (unfinished)
- Sushi-X Breaks Loose
- Linear Volume
- Nejillian Flux
- Explorer Jacko
- Dusk Rose (unfinished)
- The Bounerim
- Gridline
- Dungeon Erghuck
- Tony & Me
- Operation Killbot
- Pac
- Zoom the Super Bear
- Sign of the Hedgehog
- Sign of the Hedgehog 2 (unfinished)
- Fluffy Ralph
- Octolris
- The Adventures of Fred Earwigian (unfinished)
- Rōdïp: Rover of the Deep (unfinished)
- Glubada Pond
- Zark
- Crullo
- Patchwork Heart
- Peach the Lobster
- Clyde & Zeke
- Friction
- A-J 3
- Ninja Tuck
- Ninja Tuck II: Booka
- Ricci's Cow Hunt
- Jario! (unfinished)
- The McKenna Chronicles (unfinished)
- Beware the Gremlin
- Watch Me Die!
- Vampire
- Overworld (unfinished)
- Builder
- The Fantastic Adventures of Byron Solomon (unfinished)
- Bubble & Squeak (unfinished)
- PersiaTron (unfinished)
Distribution
Most games were uploaded as shareware demos onto local Maine bulletin boards; from there they made their way around the BBS circuit and onto occasional shovelware CDs. A half a dozen games were specifically designed for the Game-Maker 3.0 CD, and several more were also included either as shareware or as demo gameware.
Sample versions of Game-Maker 3.0, packaged for BBS distribution, include Peach, Crullo, Zark, and Patchwork Heart as their sole gameware. RSD also produced a demo game incorporating an interactive slideshow (and the bulk of Sheldon Chase's Woman Warrior and the Outer Limits) into the first level of Peach the Lobster. An earlier demo contains A-J's Quest, version 2.0.
