Adventures in Alan v3

Alan v3.0 beta5 is now available. You can view the details of the changes in Changes Section. This is mostly a resurrection release. After recent changes in the authors life and infra-structure, significant effort was required to ensure that building and releasing again works.

Alan v3.0 beta6 is now available. You can view the details of the changes in the Changes Section. You are encouraged to update to this latest release.

alanide009Today the AlanIDE was released with some updates:

  • a toolbar and menu with the expected "Save" and "New" entries
  • the splash screen shows the actual version
  • the (unused and confusing) interpreter preference setting was removed
  • generated game files show up automatically in the navigator so that you can click on them to start the interpreter (as set in your operating system, same as when you double click on an .a3c-file in the file system)
  • updates over internet

Anssi Räisänen finished 13th out of almost 40 entries in the annual IFCOMP. "Ted Paladin and the Case of the Abandoned House" was developed using Alan v3 and the extensive library provided by Anssi himself. The game introduces a novel dimension of discovery.

This is a short introduction to the standard library for Alan v3. After reading this brief introduction you will probably want to have a look at the Alan Library Cookbook.

There are four files in the standard library. You should have them in the same folder as your source code file. Then, you can include the library by using the 'import' statement in your source code.

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What They Say

"Another thing I'm sure of, the game will again be in Alan."

Eric Mayer