Alan is a tool for creating works of Interactive Fiction, a.k.a text adventures. It is easy to use. It's focus has always been on the authoring aspects.
Alan is in the process of moving towards version 3, and has entered alpha state. This means that no incompatible changes are planned before release. So unless severe bugs or problems are found during alpha and beta phases, games produced with an alpha version should work even after release. So Alan V3 is now ready for supported production work.
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 
