Alan Interactive Fiction Language
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Alan Home Pages on the move!

Alan Home Pages on the move! New home is at http://welcome.to/alan-if.

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Improved FAQ!

Improved FAQ!

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Score notification example

New example : Score Notification by This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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1999 Wacky Games

Alan games dominated the 1999 Wacky Game competition. See the Publicly Available Games page.

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1999 Spring IF Art Show

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. won the 1999 Spring IF Art Show with a work in Alan! Congratulations!

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What they say

"I-F languages are like vehicles ... using Alan is like driving a zippy, easy-handling little electric town car -- it's often all you need to take you where you want to go."

Lelah Conrad

"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

"Man, I just finished programming a little game with Alan, and let me tell you ALAN RULES!! It's so simple, *I* can program with it."

Rob Anderson

"If I was to write a new text adventure I wouldn't bother with any other authoring system. Alan is just that much easier."

Felix Pleșoianu

"I think it's the best IF language I've ever seen - and I *am* a programmer."

Andrew Heale

"[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)

Looking for v2?

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