ALAN (Adventure LANguage system) is developed by Thomas Nilsson and Göran Forslund. The ALAN pages at www.welcome.to/alan-if provide a good starting point.

The ALAN authoring system consists of a compiler and an interpreter, both of which are available for many popular platforms (see Jonadab's listings at www.bright.net/~jonadab/if/). The source language is at a very high level, favouring description over traditional programmming.

Quoting from the FAQ for the rec.arts.int-fiction newsgroup:

It isn't as powerful as the other Tier (i) systems. However, it is apparently easier to learn. Its ports to some systems, such as MacOS, are not wonderful or completely up-to-date, but work is being done on them.

Read the complete ALAN entry at www.plover.net/~textfire/raiffaq/FAQ.htm#:ALAN (Adventure LANguage system) or the entire FAQ at www.plover.net/~textfire/raiffaq/.

The ALAN version of "Cloak of Darkness" was written by Stephen Griffiths (sg@xtra.co.nz).