Alan Interactive Fiction Language
Adventure Writing for Everyone

Here we publish news about new versions of the various parts of the Alan system, the compiler, interpreters, libraries, tools etc.

v3.0.27 pre-view

Another V3 preview, 3.0.27, is now available for download from this site. New language features include opaque containers. Includes converter program from v2 and Windows GUIs and installation program.

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Christmas v3 pre-view

Merry Christmas! A new development version is available for you to enjoy during the holidays!

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v3.0.29 pre-view

Another development version is available!

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v3.0.30 pre-view

Symbolic debugging of your Alan game is possible with the new development version, v3.0.30! Simplified capitalization and a new string manipulation statement are also changes which you can get here!

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MacOSX v3.0dev30

Mac OS X executables available, thanks to dDave! Download 3.0.30 development from here!

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  1. V3.0.31 pre-view
  2. Linux v3.0.31 pre-view
  3. v3.0.32 pre-view
  4. v3.0.33 pre-view

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What they say

"[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)

"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

"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

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

Byron Campbell

"Well, it was very easy to learn and it's easy to do stuff in it."

Mikko Vuorinen

"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

Looking for v2?

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