Jacaranda Jim

Cancelled sequel

Some work was done on a planned sequel to JJ, entitled The Case of Spindle's Crotchet, but it was set aside and, later, forgotten in favour of Humbug.

Development

The game Jacaranda Jim was originally named Derek the Troll after a campus personality from Graham Cluley's stint at the Guildford College of Technology, during which an early version of the game was first written on a PRIME minicomputer. Having second thoughts about committing his mockery of a peer to the public record (and then asking people to send him money for it!), it was refashioned Jacaranda Jim and rewritten in Pascal for the PC; the irritating character of Derek was transformed into Alan the Gribbley, ultimately retaining only a handful of Derek's original accounting-related tics.

Public Domain release

Jacaranda Jim was placed in the public domain in May 1997.