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Anssi finishes midfield of Annual IFComp

The results of the 2008 Annual Interactive Fiction Competition has been around for a while. The biggest surprise (NOT!) was that "The Absolute Worst IF Game in History" finished last!

On a more positive note, Anssi Räisänen managed to finish (no pun!) 18th of 35 games with his "The Ngah Angah School of Forbidden Wisdom". No bad feat for a tricky Anssi-style Alan game, in a strong field full of aspiring Inform litteratureists!

Try them all at The IF Archives area for IFComp 2008.

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Written by: Administrator
Created: 08 December 2008
Last Updated: 07 July 2026

Alan v3 on "Cloak of Darkness"

Thanks to an initiative and effort of Anssi Räisänen, Alan v3 is now showcased on Roger Firths site "Cloak of Darkness". The site showcases a number of popular IF languages using a common simple game, "Cloak of Darkness". It previously showed Alan v2, but has now been updated to show Alan v3 instead.

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Written by: Administrator
Created: 15 November 2008
Last Updated: 14 June 2009

Alan IF moves to MiaCMS

{mosimage}Alan IF Home Pages have been maintained almost by hand up to now. I have used a number of free Content Management Systems for LAMP environments over the years. So now the time has come to upgrade Alan IF to MiaCMS, the latest fork of the old Mambo branch. I hope it will be easy to work with and that you will enjoy the layout. If you have any comments or complains don't hesitate to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

The content has mostly just been lifted from the old site, so beware of some broken links, and (still) outdated information for a while to come.

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Written by: Administrator
Created: 12 October 2008
Last Updated: 28 December 2011

Anssi enters IFComp 2008

Anssi Räisänen enters the 2008 Annual Interactive Fiction Competition with the Alan3 game "The Ngah Angah School of Forbidden Wisdom".

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Written by: Administrator
Created: 01 October 2008
Last Updated: 30 July 2009

V3 alpha 4 for Windows & MacOSX

Alan V3 Alpha 4 available for Windows & MacOSX. Download here!

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Written by: Administrator
Created: 23 April 2006
Last Updated: 23 December 2014
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What they say

"I think its most attractive quality is simplicity, a quality that no other adventure creation language possesses."

Walt Sandsquish

"An easy to learn system with the ability to do some amazing things."

Tom

"[the game] does not represent the real capabilities of the Alan Language but does demonstrate Alan's amazing ability to allow someone who has never done an iota of computer programming of any kind to produce SOMETHING within a few weeks!"

Eric Mayer (on his game HeBGB Horrors)

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

Eric Mayer

"Alan definitely met my expectations. I was able to create two pretty large, complex games with no prior programming experience."

Byron Campbell

"All those weirdly arranged parentheses, and semi-colons and strange curlicues hanging out in the middle of blank lines. Impossible. But when I looked at Alan I saw the light or, at least, English."

Eric Mayer

         

Looking for v2?

Alan V2 is very obsolete. Use Alan v3 instead. But you can still visit the obsolete v2 information and downloads here.