Welcome to the ALAN ADVENTURE LANGUAGE 3.0beta3 2013-12-28 THE NEWS IN SHORT: Alan is a tool to create text adventure games, interactive fiction, text-based simulations for teaching or other similar types of interactive software. This is the third beta version (v3.0beta3) of Alan V3. Alan v3 features many new enhancements especially object orientation. This package contains at least the compiler and the interpreter. It might also, depending on the distribution package, include the manual, the source for the Saviour game, a converter program which takes an Alan v2 source file and outputs a V3 version of the same source, the source and binary for a sample game. Read the particulars in the readme for your platform. If it does not you can find most of that at the Alan webspace: http://www.alanif.se The changes between versions is described in the file CHANGES, which should also be included. THE LONG STORY: The Alan System is one of the most easy-to-use tools to create interactive fiction, aka. adventure games. The Alan System is based on a special purpose computer language designed to be easy to use for people more interested in authoring and designing games. The system consists of a compiler, which compiles Alan source to a compact and portable form, and an interpreter that interprets such a form to allow playing of the game. The Alan System is register-ware. To use Alan for authoring and distributing your games all you need to do is to register. Registration can be done with a simple email to thomas@alanif.se. Alan V3 has been evolving for a number of years and is now feature complete. It is stable enough to use for production type work, but will be released as a non-beta when enough beta test experience show that it is mature enough. You can help! Report any problem and suggestions. You can visit http://wwww.alanif.se to find out more about Alan V3. You can also find the legacy v2.8 version there. It is becoming increasingly obsolete and you should only look at it if are looking to run some old game. Otherwise you should *really* look at V3. Alan may also be found at http://www.ifarchive.org and its mirrors. For complete copying conditions refer to the file COPYING in the distribution or the corresponding appendix in the manual. If you have any problems don't hesitate to contact the author at the following email address: thomas@alanif.se Or join the Alan mailing list, which you can find at the Alan Home Pages http://www.alanif.se All communication is welcome! Happy Authoring! Thomas Nilsson thomas@alanif.se