World's Man

World's Man
Release date	24 October 2018
Type	Game
Genre	Adventure
Creator	Unknown
Language	English
Command	worldman
Controls
⏎ Advance through menus ←/→/↑/↓ Move the man

World's Man is an adventure game that can be played on the Mikropekka computer at home. It can be downloaded from the Files section of Con-Line BBS; the file size is 1330 kilobytes, which means that downloading the game at the highest possible baud rate will take about 36 minutes and 57 seconds. The game can be accessed with the worldman command and, as with most other games, terminated by pressing Q. The goal of the game is to find "the truth".

Gameplay

The objective of the game is to guide the man using the arrow keys in order to find "the truth", an invisible object hidden somewhere on the map. The initial location of the man can be determined by finding the centre of four different tiles, and seeing where that is on the map. After the man's position has been determined, he can be guided towards the different objects on the map.

There are five different types of terrain, but they are only different from each other visually. The map is randomly generated every time a new game is started, and the edges of the map wrap around.

There are four different items that can be found: the two compass parts display the man's current horizontal and vertical coordinates individually, the radar shows the man's current position on the map, and the truth finder changes the color of the coordinates depending on the location of "the truth".

The man's walking speed increases based on how many steps have been taken, up to a maximum speed of 5:

Steps	0	50	100	200	300	400	500	600	700	800
Speed	0.5	1.0	1.5	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0

News of the world

The news of the world section on the UI periodically displays various randomly generated messages based on three separate lines:

Who	What	Where
Terrorist	murdered	in Finland.
President	executed	in Kongo.
Country musician	assassinated	in the White House.
Children	awarded	in Russia.
Beauty pageant	lost forever	in Zimbabwe.
Mass murderer	won a competition	in Germany.
High-profile politician	questioned for treason	in Sweden.
A little kitten	having an uprising	in Canada.
Professional golfer	met with confusion	in the USA.
A man with Ebola virus	sentenced to death	in Buckingham Palace.
A man with polio	wins a chess match	in Hiroshima.
Scientist	released on parole	in an owl cave.
Horse jockey	got married	in Harlem.
World traveller	saw a UFO	in a ghetto.
Mexican woman	met Bigfoot	in Hollywood.
Mexican man	fell off the Earth	in Bohemian Grove.
Chinese man	got pregnant	in Glastonbury Grove.
Chinese woman	turned to stone	in Area 51.
American woman	rose from the dead	in Africa.
American man	killed by death	in Europe.
Famous popstar	kicked a child	in Antarctica.
Catholic priest	mismanaged a company	in Australia.
Loch Ness Monster	set up a pyramid scheme	in South Africa.
Jimmy Hoffa's relative	found guilty on a fraud	in South America.
Plastic surgeon	slept the whole day	in Sumatran jungle.
Circus ringmaster	built a harem	in Lapland.
Pro wrestler	finished a pyramid	in a parking lot.
Independent film director	destroyed a pyramid	in a post office.
Media mogul	caught in a web of lies	in a bank.
Cult leader	robbed a bank	in Thailand.
Eccentric Italian	found traces of Atlantis	in Middle East.
Finnish alcoholic	built a nuclear weapon	in family reunion.
Drug dealer	started a war	in Denmark.
Computer programmer	ended a war	under the sea.
The King of Sweden	crashed a cruise ship	in Sahara.
The Queen of England	entered Hell	in Siberia.
A punk rock band	ascended to Heaven	in television.
A hockey team	met Satan	in a space station.
A mother of 100 children	built a robot	in Egypt.
A lottery winner	won a dance contest	in Alaska.
A laboratory assistant	won a horse race	in Ethiopia.
Nazi leader	became invisible	in a volcano.
Communist leader	became immortal	in Niagara Falls.
The Pope	created a new sport	in an igloo.
A football manager	married a hooker	in a bear cave.
A ski jump champion	caused a sabotage	in Guatemala.
The village idiot	wrote a dictionary	in Brazil.
An Englishman	blew up a building	in Los Angeles.
American enterpreneur	fixed an unfixable car	in a pizzeria.
An extraterrestrial	survived the atom bomb	in a bordello.
Techno artist	survived a nuclear blast	in a zoo.
Renaissance painter	killed by laser gun	in Liechtenstein.
A French diplomat	attacked by killer bees	in Monaco.
Jazz drummer	gambled all money	in San Marino.
US prime minister	destroyed a city	on a Nascar track.
NASA worker	cures cancer	in a circus.
Science expert	collected a paycheck	in London.
An expert in politics	rewrote a dictionary	in Scotland.
A gas station owner	adopted a lion	in Jamaica.
A jury member	lived inside a whale	in Mount Everest.
An awkward person	rewrote The Bible	in a prison cell.
Librarian	unlearned everything	in Iceland.
Agent provocateur	made a square circle	in a graveyard.
President's lover	tamed a monkey	in political summit.
Ice hockey legend	tried to end the world	in a gas station.
FBI agent	won ten jackpots	in a robot factory.
A chauvinist	escaped hostile territory	inside a missile silo.
CIA agent	made a mountain move	in a hall of mirrors.
Former Stasi agent	pimped the president	under a rainbow.
Philharmonic orchestra	erased history	inside a nuclear reactor.

Ending

Finding "the truth" will cause the news of the world section to display "A man finds The Truth.", followed by a newspaper with similar text appearing on the screen.

Trivia

• Winning the World's Man game will unlock the "Seek and you shall find" achievement.
• The news of the world section can display a total of 343,000 unique messages.
• The gameplay resembles the "Orienteering" minigame from Adventure Race, a collection of minigames released on a few Nokia phones in the early 2000s.