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Welcome to Tristano's personal (and unofficial) Wiki on Alan IF...

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Table of Contents

• About This Wiki
• About Alan IF
• The Alan Standard Library

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About This Wiki

This is Tristano Ajmone's personal Wiki on Alan Interactive Fiction Language v3. It's goal is to gather some assorted notes on Alan, mainly related to the Alan source code, Alan internals and other technical stuff, but I'll also include some general information on Alan, and links to useful resources.

For the official Alan IF Wiki. visit:

• https://github.com/alan-if/alan/wiki

About Alan IF

• https://www.alanif.se/
• https://github.com/alan-if/alan
• https://bitbucket.org/alanif/alan

From the Alan page on IFWiki:

An acronym for Adventure LANguage, Alan is an authoring system designed to make it easier for people unfamiliar with programming to write IF, or text-adventure games. It was created by Thomas Nilsson and Göran Forslund in 1985 and is continuously updated and maintained by Thomas Nilsson.

From the Alan website:

Alan consists of a programming language and a set of tools to support working in that language to create games. The tools include a compiler, various flavours of runners/interpreters, a completely integrated development environment, a map generator and more.

Alan is in the final stages in moving towards version 3, and has entered beta state. [...] Alan V3 is now ready for supported production work.

The Alan Standard Library

• https://www.alanif.se/information/library
• https://github.com/AnssiR66/AlanStdLib (new official repo)
• https://bitbucket.org/alanif/alanlib

Written by Anssi Räisänen. Current version: v2.1.

The Alan Standard Library is a set of preprogrammed basic verbs and classes to start building your own adventures. The standard library is not included with the ALAN programming system and must be downloaded separately.