Fado MUD client

JDA

About this game

Fado is a Multi User Dungeon (MUD) client for Android devices.

In its original concept, MUD stands for Multi-User Dungeon. Nowadays, no matter the theme of the game, a MUD is a multiplayer real-time virtual world, described primarily in text. MUDs combine elements of role-playing games, hack and slash, player versus player, interactive fiction and online chat.

Fado, being a MUD client, is the interface that lets you connect to a myriad of MUD servers around the world. This is not a game; this is the gateway to hundreds of text games.

Key features:
- can connect to plain or TLS sockets
- 256 color support
- multiple configurable joysticks
- multiple configurable gestures
- pinch zoom to easily zoom in and out console text (double tap to return to default zoom)
- disable line wrap - depending on the MUD you are connected to and your own way of playing, it can be useful and enhance gameplay
- Fake MXP: on each word you click in, a radial menu appear with configurable options (you can make use of Font Awesome 6.6.0 icons and regular expressions, Java flavor)
- Autocomplete on input line (configurable)
- Triggers, aliases and timers (all configurable)
- .vib, .tts, .toast and .not commands, to make device vibrate, do a text-to-speech sound, create a toast message or a notification (configurable)
- enhanced accessibility through a brighter color palette and the addition of .tts, .ttsskip, and .ttsclear commands
- write logs to file
- notes/journal, to store text documents using a rich editor

Fado makes use of third-party libraries (either as-is or adapted):
- radialMenu: https://github.com/victorqribeiro/radialMenu
- joystickController: https://github.com/cyrus2281/joystick-controller
- Awesomplete: https://github.com/LeaVerou/awesomplete
- ansi2html: https://github.com/mfontani/ansi2html
- richeditor: https://github.com/wasabeef/richeditor-android

For an extensive list of available MUD servers and their themes, you can check out the following website: https://iberia.jdai.pt/mudstats/mudlist

You can find more information about Fado at https://iberia.jdai.pt/fado/fado.html.

Ratings and reviews

The single character experience is nice. The interface is customizable, although the user experience is a little difficult to get things the way you like. Really nice once done. The bad part is if you want to run multiple characters at once, it is either impossible to find, or really difficult to to have more than one connection. Will 5 star, and donate if added a smooth option to quick swap characters. It would be sick to do it via sidebar swipes

A solid MUD client with a todo list that can easily make it the best client available on Android. The joysticks make moving around very natural and the context menus when you tap on a word are a unique way to interact with a text based world. If the todo list is realized with the same quality of what's already present this will be the top client.

Kind of wish it had the buttons like blowtorch I'm having difficulties navigating with the joystick

What's new

Bug fixes, with most important related to notes (were wrongly being stored as being available to all MUDs in spite of MUD specific)