If your book uses so much material from Wikipedia, then what about licenses? Shouldn't it in turn have to be licensed under GNU Free Documentation License?

Yep you're right, the book is fully licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. The full license is also printed at the end of the book. So you can freely download the editable digital version if you like, and in turn mash it yourself if you want.

What about kindle edition?

Tuzemec, hmm, good suggestion, I have to read up on how to provide a Kindle version and look into that.

God bless Day of the Tentacle!

I hope there is a chapter about Sam & Max!

You can download from

blogoscoped.com/graphic-advent ...

> I hope there is a chapter about Sam & Max!

Yep, there is! You can see the full table of contents at
blogoscoped.com/graphic-advent ...

The book looks great. Thanks so much for doing this.

Philipp, I'm speechless. It just happens that I loved almost the same game titles in the past. Maniac Mansion on C64 was my first experience with adventure games. Myst and Riven were giving me sleepless nights a bit later.

Great job!

Are the images GFDL?

Fantastic job! I grew up on these games, so can understand the obsession.

The lack of Broken Sword saddens me deeply.

Anon, the book is Gnu-licensed, the images are Fair Use, the source URLs of the screenshots (not necessarily the copyright owners I guess, I'm not sure if one can "own" a screenshot?) are listed at the end of the book...

Is there a place where I can download a PDF version?

Thanks!

Just so you know, Lulu.com has made it extremely easy to publish to Kindle and iBooks without the publisher having to do anything

Would love a downloady version. Instant gratification = win.

John, let me think about publishing a PDF, right now I went with the HTML zip which you can get at the site. Would that suffice?

James, thanks for the info, I will look into that. Having it as eBook would be cool.

I like it very much. Monkey Island and Leisure Suit Larry were my first favorite games back in the 1980ies. Even if the graphics were crude
it was the idea of the games which counted.
Thank you Philipp for compiling this book.

Just tweeted about it here :) cool well done Phil.
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Slashdot has a thread "Our Video Game Heritage Is Rotting Away ".
games.slashdot.org/story/10/07 ...