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.

There is still some material here for Alan v2.x but it is becoming more and more obsolete and will be removed with time. Unless you are having problems with an already developed game you should look at Alan V3. There is also a converter available to help out with porting an existing game to V3.

To find out what Alan is all about you can read the Version 3 manual. 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 This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it your copy of the system. To help you out you can read the answers to some Frequently Asked Questions about v3. A list of some publicly available games is also available. And of course there are also some links to other Interactive Fiction sites.