Fado MUD client

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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
- supports multiple simultaneous connections
- negotiation of NAWS, MSSP, MCCP_V2, OSC 8
- 256 color support
- multiple configurable joysticks
- multiple configurable gestures
- multiple configurable gyroscope tilts
- 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 fully cutomizable terminal colours, OpenDyslexic font and text-to-speech commands
- write logs to file
- notes/journal, to store text documents using a rich editor
- scripting, via Lua, on a Fado specific IDE

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
- LuaJ: http://www.luaj.org/luaj.html
- Sora Editor: https://github.com/Rosemoe/sora-editor

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

A new client. Yay! Works good so far. Just a few nitpicks. Edit: found the settings menu and tweaked the font. The default font color is a little dim and needs to be brighter. Needs to support code pages for proper 8-bit character display. SSL support would be nice, but it also needs to support the older "broken" SSL for the ones that haven't upgraded yet.

I hadn't looked in a while and was so happy to find this android mud client. It is one of the best ones I've used. I think it could almost replace desktop client getting a little creative to string together scripting a fixed area on my mud. At that point, the only other feature I could think I'd be missing is the ability to split screen the terminal and allow for tells or chats to be captured and reported to a second pane. I'll be recommending this to fellow mudders.

My games never seem to wrap text correctly despite how I try to make the settings do it. Some lines work fine, others cut off up to 4 characters off the start of the line with no obvious, to me, rhyme or reason. Being unable to expand the text input box makes this app really only useful for hack and slash games. Pity, because it runs a lot better than the only, also bad, alternative.

What’s new

- new settings option: enable/disable terminal echo. On by default
- new settings option: announce capability to read OSC 8 links. Off by default
- new settings options: ability to customise the first 16 palette colors (colour intensity slider is still useful to return all 16 colours at once to a default state)
- new font available: OpenDyslexic
- new dot command: reconnect
- new dot commands for creating and editing all trigger details