Summary: Boatman, Boatman

INTRODUCTION As a kid, we like riddles that makes us confuse and think deeply. One of those riddles was “BOATMAN, Boatman is an old riddle that makes people really think. We made this riddle into a game to reintroduce this riddle. This riddle is simple but you really have to think. This game was inspired by “The fox, goose and bag of beans puzzle. It dates back to at least the 9th century.

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY A man has to get a fox, and a chicken, and a sack of corn across the river. He has a rowboat, and it can only carry him and one thing. If the fox and the chicken are left together, the fox will eat the chicken. If the chicken and the corn are left together, the chicken will eat the corn.

OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
For many games, the original source code has been lost, so engineers are often forced to work off of “retail code," the less malleable code rescued from original retail copies of the game. According to Rock Paper Shotgun, that’s like “film restoration using only a VHS recording of a television broadcast, the original negatives having been destroyed.”
The process is not wholly unlike archaeology. Sometimes engineers even stumble upon hidden messages within a game’s code. For instance, while restoring Dungeon Keeper, GOG employees found a note written by the game’s original creator and lost for nearly twenty years, which thanked his employees for their many sleepless nights building the game: “This game has been written with a passion I am proud to be a part of. I do not just hope you like it, I also hope you are aware of the huge amount of work we have all done.”
It’s fascinating that restoring media created such a short time ago can be such a difficult process—after all, we’ve been able to decode and preserve written works dating back thousands of years. But rapid changes in technology have caused an accelerated aging process for the PC games of the last few decades. Though PC games have become increasingly ephemeral, there are still plenty of fans who remember them fondly. Which is why GOG’s restoration process is partially crowd sourced—the company not only restores games off a wish list, but recruits the gaming community
My memory can still bring me lots of different childhood past times that are rarely seen among the younger generation nowadays, one of these is with regards to games.
Because of computers, I can only seldom see the streets now filled with children who are shouting, running, hiding or playing. To play games back then would mean “to face, compete and play with playmates”. Now, it shifted into facing a computer.
I can still remember classic games we have back then like hide and Seek (Tago-tago-an/panagu-ay), tumba patis/tumba-lata, marble games/ lens lens, patintero/enter-enter, limbo rock and many more. Human playmates were replaced by computers, and reality were replaced by virtual reality.
I believe that the rise of information leads to the rise of knowledge, and that is good for the economy, but it has also its downside. Thousands or even millions of my fellow young men were hooked up in computer games and online games. Lots of time were wasted and lots of money were invested in