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)

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

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.