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No Time To Play

In "No Time To Play" Felix Pleşoianu writes about the pleasures of writing an adventure in Alan.

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Written by: Administrator
Created: 30 December 2013
Last Updated: 30 December 2013

New Alan author enters IFComp 2012

Robert DeFord writes his first public Alan game and enters the 18th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2012). The game "The Sealed Room" is a short game about getting out of a sealed room with only the help of a dragon and a unicorn. It finished 22nd place.

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Written by: Administrator
Created: 07 July 2012
Last Updated: 07 July 2026

Anssi 13th in IFComp 2011 with Alan game

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. Read about the game and play it!

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Written by: Administrator
Created: 17 December 2011
Last Updated: 07 July 2026

Restore-problem patched

There have been some indications out there in IF-land about a problem with restore in Alan alpha9 interpreters. One of the games that have been hit is "Room 206" by Byron Campbell, a game reviewed here recently.

The problem have now been fixed. Alpha9 interpreters for Windows have been patched, and the fix will be included in the upcoming beta1. (As well as all development snapshots from now on.) If you are uncertain if your interpreter have the problem, interpreters with a date of 2010-12-06 and later should be ok.

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Written by: Administrator
Created: 06 December 2010
Last Updated: 06 December 2010

Another move...

The Alan IF website has just been converted to another CMS (Content Management System). MiaCMS seemed to be dying, so we made the jump to Joomla. Joomla seems to be the most promising descendant of Mambo (from which MiaCMS also sprung), with a lot of extensions. The move was actually quite painless once the database migration of the articles was figured out. And of course the layout had to be redone as well. But that also turned out quite nice, don't you think?

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Written by: Administrator
Created: 10 July 2010
Last Updated: 11 July 2010
  1. Anssi finishes midfield of Annual IFComp
  2. Alan v3 on "Cloak of Darkness"
  3. Alan IF moves to MiaCMS
  4. Anssi enters IFComp 2008

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What they say

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

Tom

"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

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

Andrew Heale

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

Eric Mayer

"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

"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

         

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