Alan

From IFWiki

(Redirected from Alan 3)

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 updated and maintained by Thomas Nilsson.

The language features a self-documenting, English-like syntax, possibly inspired by COBOL, and several built-in classes of objects commonly used in IF. Version three of the system is currently under development and will add a few more programming constructs to the language and allow users to create their own classes of objects.

10-Sep-2005: Alan version 3 goes Alpha! Alan 3 introduces object orientation (eg: classes, properties, inheritance) and other new features. Although it is still easy to learn, Alan 3 is not fully backwards-compatible with Alan 2.

Links