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Alan is one of the most easy to use tools specialized for creating works of Interactive Fiction, a.k.a text adventures. It's focus has always been on the authoring aspects.

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To find out what Alan is all about you can have a look at some small examples or read the on-line version of the manual or the tutorial. When you want to proceed to try it out you can download a copy of the complete Alan system, documentation or source code. You can register your copy of the system. To help you out you can read the answers to some Frequently Asked Questions. Some publicly available games is also listed here. And of course there are also some links to other Interactive Fiction sites.

News!		User Feedback
2003-09-06 : V3 preview 3.0.26 available for download from this site. Supports images, undo, syntax synonyms and more. 2003-07-23 : Alan 2.8.7 available. Fixes syntax trashed by compiler and paragraphs rendered same as newline in WinArun. [More news]		"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 [More feedback]
Version 3 in the Works!		The Adventure of a Major Evolution
A number of development versions of Alan v3 have been available to the subscribers to the alan-if mailing list during the last year. They are now available from this site. [Read more]		During a decade and a half of use, Alan has attracted many budding authors, which in turn have given feed-back to what Alan might become. A couple of years ago the adventure of creating Alan v3 started. [Read full story]

"The trick to interactive fiction, really, is making the lack of interaction feel natural."

Neil deMause in rec.arts.int-fiction 1997