#nyrator dreams

[ao3feed-ds9]

The Casualty: Devolved into Lovemaking

https://ift.tt/1lPmoHY by XindiChick A bonus smut story for my main epic about Damar ♡ Sexually frustrated Dukat decides to have a little porny fantasy before bed. He lets Damar invade the picture and they have fun with Nyran, but then Dukat falls asleep. His dream forces him to face some ugly truths about himself as he's passively watching the steamy scene between Damar and Nyran devolving into straight-up devoted lovemaking. Sexy fun mixed with some psych analysis of Dukat. Limited 3rd person, Dukat's POV. Goes somewhere after chapter 1 when Dukat hasn't yet managed to seduce Nyran, hence his need to imagine things. Some mild spoilers for the main story - but perhaps it might get you interested in reading the fic ;) ♡ Words: 4276, Chapters: 2/2, Language: English Series: Part 2 of Nyrat (Corat Damar & Zaira Nyran) [DS9] Fandoms: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: F/M Characters: Dukat (Star Trek), Damar (Star Trek), Zaira Nyran (OC) Relationships: Damar (Star Trek)/Original Female Character(s), Dukat (Star Trek)/Original Female Character(s), Damar & Dukat (Star Trek) Additional Tags: Smut, Shameless Smut, Fluff and Smut, Narcissism, Pre-Threesome, Blow Jobs, loving smut, Porn with Feelings, Romantic Fluff, Alien Biology, Alien Sex, Sex Involving Cardassian Genitals (Star Trek), Bajoran MC

[nyrator]

also writing down another dreammmm

it was also strangely detailed and real and involved a fry place and a serial killer

okay so I vaguely remember it starting with like

my mother being all “you better get ready for work so you’re not late” and I’m like “it’s Thursday I still don’t know if I go in at 2PM or 4PM (I legit don’t), I have time to get ready”, then somehow or another I’m in my costume down by some supermarket near my house/work with my friend T, and we’re both in costume (I’m Kairi and he was Saix)

and anyway some way or another we were leaving something that I forget, and he was like “well, want to get something to eat” and I was looking at two restaurants standing right in front of us, one was something like ____’s Fries, and the other was one I was more familiar with (still forgot) and it also had french fries, and we were joking since it’s a joke that the only thing I ever eat is french fries (because when I go out it is, my diet is terrible and food is awful to eat)

so he wanted to go to Denny’s (note our conversation sounds exactly like one we’d have in real life), but we end up deciding to go to the Fry place though he wasn’t as interested in it. So to get in, apparently it was connected to this bar, which was sort of like a mansion/museum, where you go to the end of the bar, to the right, and go through all these weird rooms to reach a small old fashioned restaurant that served fries

so we’re going through these rooms and like, one was just a wall full of paintings of a guy’s face, and they were all fancy small rooms open and incomplete, kind of like a furniture store for stereotypical evil rich people mansions. And T is telling me a story like, about how there are rumors going around about this old guy at the bar, how apparently he killed his aunt or something and I was thinking to myself “rumors are terrible things, I have no idea if it’s true or not but I don’t want to judge people based on that alone” which is what I normally think to myself whenever I hear people gossiping or ill-speaking anyone (I tend to play devil’s advocate in my head a lot)

anyway so like we get to the fry stand and suddenly I had to go to the bathroom, and I’m all thinking about all these things like “well I don’t have to go that bad but what if I wet myself in my costume god no I can feel that’s going to happen somehow” (anyone who knows me knows I’m like hypersensitive/self conscious about my bathroom habits), so this is the part of the dream where my mind gets all drunk and that “whoa I dropped my pen but can’t pick it back up feeling”, where like, there were two doors on the wall near the exit, but like, one seemed like it wasn’t a bathroom or something, and the other was like, a small room with a toilet covered in glass where like people could see you and stuff and I was like “aaaa neverrrr” but my friend ended up going into the bathroom himself, so after doing a Kaiji-esque struggle of trying to figure out where to go, I eventually wandered off through another door that I thought had a normal bathroom, all the while challenging myself with weird self challenges like “how far can I go before wetting myself” which is also something I would probably do in real life (I always self impose dumb challenges on myself from things like “counting down slowly to see if I make it to the bathroom on time” to things like “do something like climb all these stairs in ten long seconds and if you don’t then stab yourself in the arm” kinda things, though I can also say they’re usually pretty forgiving and never actually failed them) 

somehow I end up back at the entrance of the bar, and paying more attention to it, it was like a western bar, dim, two pool tables on the sides, and sinister looking people in vests talking to each other. One was this senile old man, who I figured who the story was about, who when I listened to him seemed to be talking about drugs or something, but seemed harmless or at least senile.

Then walking through the mansion-y rooms again (they were like white halls that led to more fire-place-lit brown rooms, kind of like in a 3x3 grid where the halls were more like entrances to a gazebo or something)

and like, there are a few other people admiring the sights, and I’m looking at the paintings of faces like “whoa, this guy is pretty creepy”, and then suddenly these two guys in trench coats with light blonde hair come (Kinda Columbo esque), they’re detectives and they want to talk to someone, and I’m hoping it’s not be because I feel like I’m always suspicious even though I know I have nothing to do with anything, so they talk to this older light haired lady next to me, asking about “Druuuugs?” So she starts talking, and they’re looking for this old guy who was into drugs, who was also a serial killer. He pulls out these four photos, and god, each face was such clear detail I swore it was real. They were older photos, sepia toned, but one was of a curly, dark-haired little girl, one was of two people, one was a blonde who looked like the lady he was talking to, and two other women, and I’m like, “whoa”, there was this chill going down my spine that these people were dead and like, their entire existence is just gone and stuff

then I’m like “wait I know bits of this story” but just like normal me, dream me forgets all the details and things start blending together and I’m like “wait there was... something about an aunt?” and they were like “well he murdered his grandkids, we didn’t hear anything about an aunt” and I’m all like “no, I’m not going to say anything to put someone’s life/freedom at jeopardy who I don’t even know based on some rumors alone” then eventually my cat jumped on my chest and woke me up and yeah

I forgot a lot of the details but there were a lot of faces and conversations and I was like whoa that’s super detailed for one of my dreams and yeah

also the previous nights I’ve been barely getting any sleep because I’m trapped against the wall between my bed and my wall, having Blacky sleep on my pillow/at my side and never letting me sleep and we cuddle as he sticks his claws into me while he washes himself/washes my hair (also I can’t breathe at night anymore since I’m deathly allergic to cats, and Blacky sleeps right in my face and on my pillow), Bootsie being jealous at my feet and not letting me roll over, and My Melody plush getting in the way (also having not slept with a plush since middle school, cuddling with one is much more comforting than I thought, I can understand the appeal of body pillows now)

[doc-saturn]

Get the Demo (Itch.io, Gamejolt)

Returning Nightmares is an exploration adventure-horror game being developed in RPG Maker 2003, inspired by Yume Nikki and it's multiple fan-made homages (but with dialogue & easier to navigate maps).  You play as Akira, a young man locked up in his own bedroom, exploring his dreams to remember the events that lead him to where he is now.  But some things are better left alone… 

Demo features include:

Over 20 areas to explore!

12 Memories to collect

13 Events to see

NPCs with changing dialogue

Custom Graphics

Very light puzzle elements

It’s a partially silly, partially serious game, so there is blood, gore, death, & suicide mentions for those sensitive to it.  Depending on how fast you are at finding things, the demo can take anywhere from 1-2 hours to finish.  You should not need to download the RTP to play this game, but if you do, you can get it here from the official site. 

Huge shout-out to @pancakeproductions, @hogwashdev, @clockworkprincedev, @cachicordova, blankface, @nyrator, @choko-flan, @thislostrose, @laytonloztew, & @pakilusin for testing this for me, and thanks to the Pixel Horror & Dream Diary Development Discords for being good help and support!

Thank you so much for bearing with me, and I hope you enjoy the game!  Feel free to send in an ask or leave a comment if you need help finding something or experience a technical issue.  :)

[dreamdiaryjam]

Dream Diary Jam 2 -Yume Nikki Jam- is coming May 14th!

And you can follow us on Twitter this year!  Header art this year by the wonderful @nyrator​.

It's back, dreamers!  Welcome old and new to Dream Diary Jam, a game Jam all about creating fangames for the cult classic RPG Maker 2003 game Yume Nikki - and for the new YUME NIKKI ~Dream Diary~ as well.  The goal of this jam is to make a Yume Nikki fangame or demo of a fangame within 6 weeks time, starting on May 15th and ending on June 26th, the original Yume Nikki's 14th birthday. Your host this year are @pinkuboa & @pancakeproductions.

Here are the currently accepted types of entries:

A Traditional Yume Nikki Fangames - These games are just like Yume Nikki, except with different protagonist & worlds and sometimes a few game mechanics changed up. They're like sequels or spiritual successors to the original game in lieu of an actual Yume Nikki update. Get as experimental as you'd like. Examples of these games include .flow, Yume 2kki, Lcd Dem, and Answered Prayers.

An Actual Fangame of Yume Nikki - These games use the characters and setting of the original game and make a new game with them in it. They're like fanfiction, except with a lot more programming. You can make anything from a JRPG to a dating sim for this one, as long as it features the cast of Yume Nikki. Examples of these games include NASU Plus, Memories of Replica, Dream Kombat, and Yume Nikki Hazard.

A Fangame of YUME NIKKI ~~Dream Diary~~ - As of the time of this writing, YNDD is less than a year old, so if you make a fangame for it, you're in uncharted territory.  Your goal would be to make an adventure-platformer with surreal and/or dreamlike things, and have a few items the player can collect and use to solve puzzles. See the itch.io page for details.

Your goal is is to make a full game, demo, or v0.00 (see "Completion Goals" for more details). Whatever you decide to make, do your best to complete it and have as much fun as you can!  There's no competition and no prizes, so there's no pressure for participants to make the best game ever.  Only gentle, encouraging pressure to get your game finished here.  If you'd like to take a look at last year's entries for inspiration and ideas, you can find them here: https://itch.io/jam/dream-diary-jam  

If you participated last year, you can use your idea from last year or update your entry from last year if you have barely touched it from last Jam.  Contact the jam via twitter, tumblr, or discord chat if you would like to try that.

Jam Basics

Jam runs from May 14th, 12:00am EST to June 26th, 12:00am EST. You can plan out your game all you'd like before then, but you can't work on it until May 14th hits. 

 Late entries are accepted up to 5 days after the jam, however, you must contact the jam so they can be added to the jam page properly.

You can work by yourself or on a team, and you can make as many games as you can participate in.

The game can be a demo or a full game. For traditional Yume Nikki Fangames, it has to fall under the requirements of a v0.00 (see "Completion Goals" for more details). Yume Nikki is still in v0.10!

You can make your fangame any genre you'd like, don't feel constrained to horror.

You can use any engine you'd like. The RPG Maker series is suggested for a traditional fangame, but traditional Yume Nikki fangames have been made on other engines as well.  Unity is suggested for YUME NIKKI ~Dream Diary~ Fangames as it was the engine the game was made in, but feel free to use any 2D or 3D engine you're comfortable with.

Check us out on itch.io below for more details.

Come join the jam with us here on itch.io!

[you-n-me-dev]

you&me is officially submitted to @dreamdiaryjam!

you&me is a game about two sisters, Yarn and Nyla, their dreams, and how they influence each other’s dreams.

It’s very unfinished (as par for the course for this devblog), but with potential to finish by October. At the very least, I hope to finish the collective dreams by then.

This version has:

Four Stuff (Effects), which are accessed via the number keys and are only aesthetic for now

Ten dream maps to explore (of varying quality, none of them are finished and a few can barely be called maps)

Press the Shift Key to Nap after a few seconds, and the Number 0 Key to wake back up.

Happy 13th birthday, Yume Nikki, and happy first release, you&me!

[flareblitzedyt]

Dream Diary Jam 2017 (Lots of Yume Nikki Fangames!) - Part 2 (N-Z) | Flare Let’s Play:

@dreamdiaryjam 2017 is held to celebrate the 13th birthday of the release of Yume Nikki, a game that was developed in RPG Maker 2003 by Kikiyama. This video shows a bite size of most games that were entered and accepted in the Jam that are playable on Windows, each game is showcased around more or less 10 minutes.

Want to see a specific game from the Jam? Look below for a timestamp along with where you can find the game on itchio:

No Outlet: https://budgeri.itch.io/no-outlet Made by budgeri - 00:00

Nocti: https://nuxill.itch.io/nocti-jam-version Made by Nuxill - 12:24

Onohi: https://remyripple.itch.io/onohi Made by remyripple - 25:12

Passing By: https://jpegurl.itch.io/passing-by Made by jpegurl - 37:06

Ruler's Reign: https://stellalune.itch.io/rulers-reign Made by Stellalune - 46:18

Sleepless: https://littleslime.itch.io/sleepless Made by littleslime - 58:51

Take The Veil: https://clinginglies.itch.io/take-the-veil Made by Chinginglies - 01:11:55

Trade Effluent: https://claufiersoft.itch.io/trade-effluent Made by claufiersoft - 01:24:02

XV: https://xv.itch.io/xv Made by xv - 01:32:14

you&me: https://nyrator.itch.io/you-n-me Made by Nyrator - 01:43:59

Yume Nyaki: https://frankie1205.itch.io/project-nyaki Made by Frankie1205 - 01:54:25

Look at Part 1 if you haven't done so for more Yume Nikki fangames of the 2017 Dream Diary Jam. Big thank you to @pinkuboa, without them the Dream Diary Jam would not of been possible! ^^

[nyrator]

mannn I actually had a dream today that I can remember and it was a dream

I probably forgot most of it by now but writing it for the sake of it (because I want to remember my dreams when they happen)

so apparently there was this club I was in line for, kind of like a movie theater or something I forget what, and it was mostly young adults there and everyone was ordering bread with jam on it or something like that.

So eventually I go up to this hip afro’d man and without thinking be like “I’ll uh have a peanut butter sandwich” and immediately I was like “oh man I screwed up didn’t I” but the dude was like “yoooooo my dude, right on” and apparently respected and enjoyed peanut butter sandwiches

and so I get in there and I thiiink everyone was drunk but I had cola instead (and called it cola instead of soda for some reason), eventually I left but something something happened and apparently I was going against the norm or something so yeah

so I felt uncomfortable there so I left but I think I accidentally forgot my backpack or something so I go back to the receptionist and she hands me my backpack all smug/sinister like and inside was my Switch just warped and broken in half

so somehow I’m still able to play the Switch and I’m like “mannn this suckkks this was so much money, all my Zelda progress” I say as I still play the Switch fine otherwise, then stuff happened and like it was like all my possessions were stolen and scattered around and I had to find them all (oh man is this Yume Nikki) before they were sold in vending machines or what have you (and there were these two receptionists tormenting all along the way)

there were also these guys in suits and I think they were trying to assassinate me as well before I left this theater club so I was sneaking around and maybe sabotaging the place? And yeahhh

and the moment I woke up I was like “wait but what happened to the sweet afro’d man he worked there was he a part of it too or was he chaotic neutral in this land of young adults who never strayed from the norm”

so yeah I forgot a lot of the stuff like what they were doing at the club or why my stuff got destroyed/what happened afterwards but yeah it was creative and I want more of those

the only thing I did different was wake up at 5AM, thirsty and naeseous, then went back to sleep after drinking a bunch of water and going to the bathroom and suddenly this sweet hip dream once I finally fell asleep (or maybe I had the dream before 5AM I forget)

according to tumblr I only have about one dream a year I remember that’s worth writing down so that’s neat (most dreams I don’t remember at all having, and the ones I do are very dull and usually involve something in my daily routine only really repetitive (stuff like dropping something and trying to find it and trying to find it and low-key stressing out and trying to find it)

[nyrator]

it’s time for playthrough number 2, a screenshot-heavy look through...

Take the Veil by Clinginglies~ @clinginglies

this be a very beautiful game from what I’ve played full of good atmosphere and sounds and yeah I highly recommend this one

This be one of the games I was looking really forward for. Music be nice so far.

and here we have our protagonist

Ulysses A. Psychic

A neat goat person. Reaaally digging the visuals so far, especially the color palette. Trees be nice too.

apparently the campsite is closed for the season though (also wow rude I see that piece of litter up there)

Also, there’s a floating pixel bar above their hair when you walk under the tree (the end of the trunk), thanks tree sprites and layering.

oh man that’s rough buddy

hello

after interacting with this thing (against my better judgement since I could still explore the top), I exploded the world. Also found a trailer.

Note tells me 9 to wake up and bed to sleep, gotcha.

oh dude and there are flowers now I love these flowers

oh hi

oh

bye

now listen here batman I have no time for your poor trigger discipline

Well, I thiiink that’s it for now? There may be more that I’m missing but I guess I-

fine I’ll go and check

aaa there we go, I CAN teleport if I’m standing on the cushion thing

good ol’ pentagrams, with branching paths no less oh boy

I’m okay with this periwinkle-y path

miranda, for some reason my first thought was “Miranda please”, thanks Penelope, Amanda’s number one fan, please. Also found a house of lore.

oh hey is this a friend

apparently they lost a friend

I think I’ve seen most stuff in here so let’s go back- oh wait I have to wake up to go back, okay. Now onto the left path-and it keeps branching

my eyes are terrible and in pain but I think that’s intentional chromatic aberration, I can’t look at it too long or my eyes hurt at least

oh hello-oh goodbye

ohhh you wanted to show me this (even though I wanted to see what was down the hall)

...

neat

RUDE

okay so I got murdered again, and then went back and the hall had nothing (at least not yet) so let’s go back to the left path

ooo, an autumn-y place

okay this house has pretty nice music too I’m digging this house music

oh hi mom did I leave my journal in here

no

okay bye mom

okay so that’s pretty much it for this area for now (other than a skull on a stick)

hello headless statue

Well, I think that’s all I can find for now. I’m not sure how much I missed (I feel like a lot), but so far I’m super digging this game so far like really this is incredible for only a month of work.

The palettes are fantastic, the sound and music are fantastic, there’s a lot going on in this world, neat animal-y people creatures. I will say the only issue art-wise I had was the title screen, but that’s just a personal preference since I’m never a fan of aliasing or pen strokes or whatever like that even in a title screen. But hey it’s a WIP so who knows what this game will become (and again that’s just my personal preference)

Maps I noticed tend to be linear (they’re all about three maps wide so I just go up and down the center and the sides to see what I can find), but I think I’m okay with that. A few minor visuals issues here and there (the tree trunk, the way the autotiles work in the Nexus-esque world on some corners), but overall this is extremely impressive and I can’t wait to see more.

It’s funny, I never found anything like an Effect (I feel like there’s a journal somewhere still), and this game is very much a world with dialogue and stuff, but still really keeps that Yume Nikki fangame vibe in a good way. The visuals, the exploration, I like it. Also the maps totally help give me inspiration with some of my maps, just simple things like good color palettes and flowers can go a long way (I still love the indigo-y lavender/periwinkle map that is a beautiful colored map)

so far a 10/10 game good job clinginglies

(no seriously how the heck did everyone make such good games in a month, I mean I know I had to work a lot but mannn these games are jammed pack with worlds)

[nyrator]

It’s time once again, this time the third game for Dream Diary Jam,

Manda no Yume by @laytonloztew !

somehow I got a steam trading card (by accidentally trying to open the game from the Zip file and getting the Missing Actor error message), niceee.

Okay, so, this is probably the first RPG Maker XV Ace game I’ve ever played, so this will be neat.

oh hi I’m fine thank you how are you

I mean

first official bubsy reference found, congrats (apparently the password is Poet)

oh boy here we go, non-2k3 controls, this will go well

So this is Manda, of the Yumes. Apparently you can save anywhere (and they even give you the controls here how nice)

thanks Layton

also you better believe I did the “shave and a haircut” knock on both doors

oh boy my favorite dos, even comes with a candy cane skin immediately afterwards (sticking with default until a purple shows up)

that’s a lot of doors, how do you people make so many worlds so fast

our first world is a snow world, happy little snowman there

oh duuuude shivering and footprintssss

ayyyyy, the airconditioner that keeps on giving

okay so next world then

trippy- oh duuude a body pillow

I never got the anime prints thing but I can see the appeal to hugging something in bed

oooo you can combine effects (also I forget you can run with shift)

So yeah, apparently this pillow is the medamaude of the game, neat

apparently beach door won’t open either

so now we’re in the woods world instead, those sure are trees. With candles on them, no less, how safe, time to make yogi bear proud

hello frog friend

oh hey a computer train, the new way in mobile technology

oh no look ouuuttt

sup my forest dude mind shedding a little light on me, I tried saving the rainforest but apparently now I’m blind

or you could just awkwardly loop endlessly that’s fine too

I was born for this, poet

aaaaaa

helloooo frienddddd

nice CD you have

this guy is a true friend, I have a new game and everything (I think it’s for the computer back in dream hub)

cool story poet

oh duuude roulette, and apparently it leads to a sweet coat

what kind of fresh hell did I stumble into

I recognize a few of these names too, neat

kid I just unequipped my sword to talk to you politely I have just murdered a ton of people who may be been cows in disguise (as well as 11 levels worth of slime) don’t try me

I don’t know if this is randomized or if you’re doing this on purpose but you’re getting the RPG grind down pretty well

oh man the gang’s all here (even hoxy offscreen)

good times

also why did you put me through that fresh hell, but hey at least now I have an original which I swear if it’s the RTP menu theme-

oh no

it’s just a cute bow for my sword how nice

Now in the door above the faces I found a nice town with a veranda and also a matroshka

ᏊºัꈊºัᏊ

IT’S HIM

COOL GUY PARKA MAN JUST AS MY FRIEND SAID

lookin goooood

thanks alarm clock

oh hello friends, I am cool guy like you yes?

that leavesss

oh hey it’s my friend again

don’t make me do th-THE CLAN TAG AND NAME CARRY OVER HERE

oh

apparently swords don’t stab shields

so thaaat’s what the glowy crystal thing was, it was my real friend

ooooh right the snowman

okay that was pretty hilarious thank you for that, the music was so nice to that point to with such a sudden halt

OH WAIT COOL GUY JACKET

not what I was expecting from a snowman but sure

that looks like my lamp

oh heyyy combinations actually work and apparently manda’s a girl so that’s nice to know

whoa- OH WAIT NOISE CANCELLING YEAH

whoa, also a spoon (also beach door is apparently a one way door, neat

also sweet

still no idea where to find the box- waittt...

maybe

I mean the combo exists so

HECK YEAH I’M SMART

SCREW YOU SIRS (except you guy on the right I’m sorry for your lack of sensitivity to brightness)

aaaaaaaaa a bowwwwwww I love bowssss

wait but

hm

AAAAAAA

so this is the last thing left huh

So I thiiiink that’s it for now? The two spots leave me hanging and the signpost keeps me wondering but hmmm (also only found the candy menu theme)

so that was a lot more fun than I expected

I swear I saw my playtime in one of the save menus and it was like 48 minutes and then I couldn’t find it when I wanted to screenshot it so yeah

Visually it left a bit to be desired, the Nexus especially had a weird layout with the doors blending into the background (and hard to figure out the exact center our friend with the crystal ball was acting as without using the body pillow)

But yeah no, the simple graphics fool you, this is actually a super detailed game (so many combinations) and I had a lot of fun

also that freaking

RPG world reminded me of Goat Simulator MMO and it was too scarily accurate, good job(?)

But yeah I really love the whole “oh this is where this effect is” guide, I’ve always wanted those in more fangames. He really was a true friend. Also I am incredibly afraid at how much coding this must have taken and yet you still gotten it done before the deadline and working mostly well, I’m dumbfounded. A lot of convenient things for the player. I’m still iffy on run buttons since there’s no reason to not ever use the run button, but hey at least it’s a toggle and not hold.

ALSO YEAH LIKE

it made me feel smart as a player by putting connections like “oh man warm coat means I can walk in snow HEADPHONES MEAN I CAN IGNORE MY REAL WORLD RESPONSIBILITIES”

So yeah, only real complaints are the Nexus, everything else be pretty okay in my book.

god tomorrow would be my game do I even bother it doesn’t come close to these three games I’ve played so far sheeshhh these are blowing my mind I expected buggy ugly messes everywhere but no you all have to keep proving me wrong and I love you all

[nyrator]

So, since Dream Diary Jam is now over, I’ll be doing a basic playthrough of each game that came out~

I’m aiming for at least one a day, maybe more depending on how short each game is/how much free time I have. Ideally I’ll finish them all before the end of July (ideally before Splatoon 2 I should say). Note, these are spoiler-heavy, so be warned.

I’ll say it now, all these games were made in roughly four weeks, and virtually all of them are demos I imagine. So keep that in mind that when I critique them, I just calls things as I see them~ Also, I’ll say it here, but if any creator for whatever reason wants me to take these down or modify them due to spoilers, wanting to keep the current build private, or just general discomfort or whatever reason, just send me a message and let me know~

So to start, let’s play No Outlet, created by budgeri, @budgerigorous !

so far so good, the cursor sound effects are a bit strong compared to the BGM but I love this BGM they got going here.

Oooo, neat sprite style. Protag looks nice, bedroom looks neat. Pretty tall ceiling and not sure how to feel about the wood texture compared to the flat style of the rest of the furniture but I’m okay with this.

Apparently her name is Mint, and she has Spells. Or, will have Spells. We’ll see.

A lot of RTP sound effects from what I’m hearing, I’m not sure if all the sounds are RTP or if some are original so yeah. Nothing wrong with RTP for a gamejam like this one I say

okay this house is bigger than I thought (also the stairs teleport could be placed better, you could walk behind the stairs upstairs and face the wrong way, also landing on top of the stairs)

The doors so far seem to be the only things interactable down here (and they only make clicky noises), so let’s go back upstairs. Also- the corners of the table on the bottom left have weird passibility.

Mint’s walk animation forwards also leaves a lot to be desired, I thought I broke her sprite pressing random buttons but no it seems the feet just move a pixel, her arms don’t move at all which is weird.

Anyway, back upstairs into the bedroom, and inside the wardrobe we goo (interesting placement for the opening of the drawers, I recommend a second space but that’s just me) Also, no way to interrupt the teleport timer yet, I’ll have to interact with you later, desk.

the Nexus. Nice, simple. You can only walk on the bricks, making me wonder how to access that dark green door...

lime green door of snow and white and flowers(? wrappers?) is nice and has nice music and also spilled bottles of soda.

oh wait that isn’t soda

(also I keep accidentally hitting the wake up Spell when trying to see this spell whoops, that’s my bad for my spamming the Z button) These transitions sure are long.

Now that we’re drunk (aka wobbly which is cute), we enter the orange forest door. The paths are a little hard to make out the exits at first, but it makes itself clear. You’re also teleported at different orientations (going through the left puts you at the top of the screen facing down, for example), which is a thing.

oh neat a house

oh

hello

uh

well that wasn’t very nice you ginger jerk

(also some more clipping, trust me I know this pain very well)

oh thanks bud

oooo

I was about to say

(no worries stairs are hard, they’re mostly weird events that if you face x direction do x movement etc etc)

wait

hm

I may be going backwards

psshhha you can’t tell me what to do game with your chill music

AYYYYY

title drop

apparently I have a Witch spell now?

oooo sweet animation, also neat I am that ginger jerk now. But apparently there’s no outlet (TM) so time to wake up again

waking up inside, the room be dark, good ol’ tint screen events

Also apparently now that I am the Witch I can’t go back to the witch’s house, instead it brings me back to Mr. Sea creature, nice touch

now a pink door of doll house-iness

the purple roses led me to white roses which led me to

an empty room- oh hey wassup

oh no don’t be mad

oh not again

aaaa my earss the bgm isn’t pleasant that’s for sure, no effect this time. Back in the white rose hallway of very long-ness

oooo wait nevermind

I am running in the 90s

I am really scared now

OH A TIMER

congrats to me

apparently I went through all the right doors, because I went right and Purple, the left door is nothing, and the other colors are loops I think. Neat.

(okay going back to change the tint screen now, also apparently there was a message for the top of the stairs too I just missed it the first time)

of course the purple door puts the tint screen right back on of course

oooo

oo

o

I’ve come full circle

I still love how I walked back there, got the proper tint, then ended up going back here anyway. I find it amusing. It was a simple as going in and out of the purple door.

SO YEAH I THINK that’s it for now

These are the Spells I got so far~

So far, really nice game. The visuals are super nice, Mint is a neat protag, digging the events like the Witch and the Mirror girls, and I like how small the maps are, makes them easy to navigate and frustration-free.

My only real complaint is the long periods with nothing, long halls like the white rose hall, or the path to the No Outlet, where it’s just nothing but holding left and no visual differences for a minute. That, and how long transitions are. Waking up, going into the closet, etc etc, they are very drawn out and drag on.

But don’t worry, those issues can easily be fixed, and so far you have a nice game here budgeri, I can’t wait to see how it goes!

[nyrator]

Okay, time for another round of Ny-plays-dream-diary-jam-games, episode 5 (four is the lost episode of my own game that I decided to draw a comic for instead)

Now up to bat is Fissure by meaka @meaka !

I will warn you, I’m rushing through this game this time because I’ll only be awake an hour more (and my bladder has been at the breaking point and the bathroom be occupied for a long time so fun rushed times in game playing awaits)

So far the music be nice, pretty Ace-looking menu, it has purple and I’m a fan of purple

Oooh. So here be our room. Pretty default-asset-looking so far, or that could be meaka’s style (I’m not familiar with either honestly but I’ve seen meaka around the internet at least)

and here we have our protag, Adapt

(I spent way too much time searching around looking for his name only to find out he doesn’t have one)

oh hello

also this corner is apparently holding something important and impassible

(I could make a melody just holding down against the door as he gets pushed back by it)

okay I guess we’ll explore the FISSURE ON THE WALL (it took me until typing out what it is to realize what it was)

colorsss

I mean you gotta go pink if purple’s already taken

ooooooooo prettyyy

it’s a bit hard to tell what’s walkable though (also that rainbow sounds very tin-y)

neat (almost didn’t see him up there)

dundundunnn (why do you kids always mess with the overlapping triangles in circles didn’t Edward Elric teach you kids anything)

aaaa I have an angleeee

oh my

you play that harp little angle

this is a trip

but I thiiink that’s all to do in this world so

now to the green world, from clouds to forest

... and besides a tree I can’t open and a river that’s pretty much it I thiiink

There might be a few more things I missed, but so far it seems to be pretty simple for now. I was in a rush though like I said so no chance to thoroughly explore things (the files seem to have more charsets than I’ve seen at least, maybe one or two more finished maps)

I do appreciate the painted backgrounds for each map though, that’s a nice touch. My only concern is at the point they’re at now is that pathing is really tricky, as are teleports/paths to other areas- it’s hard for the player to tell what’s what. But seriously though props to ya for this style, you don’t see many fangames take this approach.

Sound effects are also pretty harsh sounding, but again I don’t know what’s RTP and what’s not and I’m sure a lot of these are placeholders so I’m excited to see what happens.

Definitely a game with potential~

[nyrator]

ARE YOU ALL READY

for my first ten days in Animal Crossing New Horizons in picture form (aka the 20th-29th)

because I have close to 3,000 screenshots and it was hard go through them all but I did (mostly because I ran out of the 10,000 limit and had to upload them to my computer anyway)

letsa gooo

The start of the game.

Heck yeah, Tommytown. Also shoutouts to Rocket and Teddy, my first new friends in the town. Can’t say I relate to Rocket, but she’s pink and has a pink house eventually so that’s nice. Teddy’s okay, though not a fan of Jocks in general.

Thanks, random motivational dream K.K.

The start of Nyville

People say Timmy and Tommy are the same, and I admittedly was not a fan of them in ACNL, but I know thanks to this game that Tommy is a true friend and I would die for this tanuki

Also shoutouts to catching like two tarantulas in the first night, jesus

And in one night, managed to get Blathers to want to join our town.

And then the rest of the days came.

DAY 2

Met Gulliver (jerk thinks my head is big all the time)

Made some pro designs and changed my hair

Lots of good friend visits/visiting (though one random guy I added from Splatoon invaded and stole all my apples, rippp)

and that was my second day of playing

AND ALSO I’VE RECEIVED A LOT OF NICE LETTERS FROM PEOPLE... I am bad at writing letters and I’m not sure if people would want them public but aaaa thank you for the letters (shout outs to lala-ko in particular what a good AC frienddd)

DAY 3

Lots of things being built

Got some reactions~

MABLE... but, more importantly, that means...

SABLE... the best NPC in the game...

More friendshippp

Paid off my first loan~

Also shoutouts to local friend letting me get some apples to make some furniture for people to move in after some jerk stole all mine

Also met Harvey, what a dude. ALSO, MY OLD FRIENDS...

And that was only day three of my adventures.

DAY 4

Met Wendy, a Peppy Sheep. You’re okay, Wendy, you’re okay.

BY THE WAY THE MUSEUM IS GORGEOUS

they did not have to go that hard but they did

whoops I didn’t expect it to be that close oh well, I can move things around later so for now everything is next to each other for convenience

also met a ghost friend and he gave me expensive(?) flooring

DAY 5

Got a cute alligator friend, you’re okay too, Gayle. ALSO I SEE YOU MABLE...

Also, finally, new phone, who dis? Dis stylin’ Nyrator. May adjust it later on since I found there’s a template online on how it works.

Did some fishing as well, apparently caught some rare first that day.

Nook continues to ruin me financially, but at least I got more storage space.

DAY 6

Some frog joined, and I think I’d like him if it wasn’t for the burpy noises and the facial hair. Lazy villagers seem great in this game though.

hello Saharah

thanks for all the rugs/wallpaper I guess

Thanks, Wendy.

ALSO SHOUT OUTS TO KOMETA a good friend she got me a lovely heart apron and hair pin and pink hoodie and things and they’re so nice and aaaa thank youuu

Also made more pixel art designs because why not

even wendy agrees

DAY 7

it better, Nook

give me Tommy back to wander the island with his flag and leaf umbrella I miss socializing with Tommy

excuse you Nook told me you wanted this here

more friendship

this game a nice game to socialize in with people (even though I’m terrible at it I apologize especially for never imitating anything with anyoneee)

the letters and the casual tours and having fun are really nice, plus it’s nice to just share things like fossils and DIY recipes, good times

thanks, Wendy

ALSO LOOK AT THIS BAD BOY

It took over 50 bait until I failed a catch and failed getting that one achievement again (farthest was 81/100 fishing in a row and I keep getting into the 60s-80s before screwing up, close to 90 today though so we’ll see how it goes), after failing I was like, heck with it, just throw bait over the small fish until a big one appears, and sure enough, my second-to-last bait, and my third large fish, bam, this baby arrives.

ALSO SPEAKING OF BLATHERS

STAR WANDDDD...

thank you celeste now give me your bow...

Didn’t see a meteor shower at this point, but you better believe I just crafted one today and boy is it good (though stores clothing in the wand which is a bit weird but saves my storage space a bit, I just need to buy multiple hairpins)

DAY 8

there she is, the jingly girl herself

also I put a podium there but misplaced it, sorry Nook I’ll get it right tomorrow- oh wait you don’t do these outside anymore... ripppp

However, before any of that silly nonsense

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LALA

you don’t know how heartwarming it was to be invited to this and celebrate this that morning, had no idea it was happening until it happened, but aaaaaaaaaa so wholesome...

SERIOUSLY THIS WAS ONE OF MY MOST WHOLESOME ANIMAL CROSSING EXPERIENCES...

so anyway back to Nook and Isabelle

and getting this immediately because heck with all the inventory management in this game

So Project K, got it. Heck yeah, K.K.

Also made a town theme (forgot to screenshot it but it’s the Yume Nikki save theme, might change it to Mary Had a Little Lamb though), and also a flag design was already prepareddd

also hi Gulliver again

and a campsite...

heck yeah it’s all coming together

YEAH WHAT OF IT

WENDY YOU WERE JUST COMPLIMENTING ME

jerks all of you are jerks but you’re all still pretty okay/10 (not Merry/Kyle level though)

DAY 9

seriously though rip that podium idea

thank you mabel...

And a campsite~

EXCUSE ALL OF YOU WITH YOUR PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE SUGGESTIONS

Kometa gave me this apron and I will continue to cherish it

But yes, that’s about it for today~ Town’s unweeded, campsite’s built, things have been slowing down while at the same time picking up~

DAY 10

okay cool

okay AAAA YESSSSSS SABLE TIMEEEE FASHION TIMEEEEE...

also hello Daisy Mae, the internet loves you for some reason, can I have some turnips

that is expensive you little snot nosed brat but fine I’ll play your stalk market games, cover my whole town in four million bells worth of turnips again like ACNL...

Also thanks Lyle, I’m a B apparently.

Wow okay I don’t even have a choice, rippp

at least he’s smug, smug villagers are the best personality of villagers

heckk yeahhhh bad placements all arounddddd

I can’t wait to start fixing this island up to a better shape, rip my haphazard placement (I admit I kind of miss the randomness of earlier games, having this much control is weird)

AND THAT’S THE FIRST TEN DAYS OF ACNH...

I may have ran out of screenshot space early the next day and thus uploaded them all to my computer because I need that space (10,000 screenshots, man...)

Got a lot accomplished, I feel~ Still haven’t paid off my back room loan, but I got a bridge paid, got another bridge on the opposite side being built, and I saw some meteor showers the past two nights AND GOT A STAR WAND...

Got Gwen and Hamphrey also moving in and can’t get Merry in town just yet but she’s in the campsite, watching, waiting... debating if I should get ten randos first before moving cards in, though

Also met Gulliver/Celeste/Wisp again the past few days, and also today is the beginning of Easter stuff (so many eggs, also random esports fish guy, he’s weird, also NO BLANCA, rip my empty-faced April Fools cat dude thing (apparently a girl in the US? but I will continue to be a weeb and think of them as their Japanese selves mostly because the voices tend to be masculine)

but yeah made like over 100 wishes in two days and got a bunch of neat star things (not as many as I’d thought I’d get but I’ll take it)

Also, SABLE IS A FRIEND and I love the clothing store but am weirded out that I can’t seem to order things in bulk, just what I’m wearing in the dressing room, which is awkward. Oh wellll

(also may have realized I never got a recent passport screenshot so went and did thattt, should think up more titles maybe)

[nyrator]

okay

had the weirdest dream ever today and I forgot most of it but I have to share what I can remember

to preface this, the combination of things make perfect sense yesterday: I had just finished watching Clone High this week and all I could think of were Clone High quotes, been playing a little Dissidia NT every day, rewatching Kaiba with a friend, and just watched someone play through a bit of the GameCube Rocket Power game last night (and also had a handful of Swedish Fish and a bunch of water right before bed)

okay so like

I remember this dream being really tense and dramatic and full of self-sacrifice, and was in like, three acts, I almost cried like three times during it (it was like I was watching a tv show)

like I remember it was kinda like a Dissidia dream about Zidane and Kuja being all angsty with each other

then everyone splitting up to look for something bad like a bunch of explosives or something to stop them from blowing everything up and it was really sad

and the group was like, Rocket Power’s main four, except not, except yes- the artstyle was really weird in my head and the characters all blended together afterwards

anyway like, two people (Zidane and Kuja? Kuja and... Scudworth? It felt like a mad scientist kind of thing and it reminded me a bit of Scudworth’s office) start talking about why this is bad and have a dramatic verbal sacrifice and it was really really sad and like Reggie from RP (who was kind of mixed with Joan from Clone High?) is just in this glass booth in the top watching and shedding a tear and sighing now that everything’s over and the bombs aren’t going to explode and the day is saved

and then like, Otto/Zidane and the gang all arrive and like, Reggie’s like, “noooo don’t”, and then like, the whole scene reminded me of the Airport scene of Clone High with the overdramatic slow motion and repetitiveness, but in a dramatic and tear-jerky way (also I remember my mind just drifting to scenes of Clone High during all this)

but yeah like

her head bursts out the window in like, cartoon slow motion where it’s a frame every few seconds blurred together, and it’s like, “REGINA NOOOO”, and slowly it zooms back up and shows her body still standing there, headless, and her head is just falling down to set off the explosions to save everything with her neck like a rolled casserole or something (and I’m like ‘wait didn’t they want to stop the explosions), as a narrator begins describing her past, saying “this was just the last of her many aliases, she went by many names, the ‘Brown Card of Hearts, the...’ and I couldn’t get over the name ‘brown card of hearts’, but there was like a list written beside her, as like, she went into this warped dreamy area, full of cartoony-macabre renditions of her and then Disney princess-esque things in a neon-Kaiba artstyle, and they’re all like “scratching their arms, doing depression things, then disney princess dresses all hanged, etc” and I’m like “huh it’s amazing what kids cartoons can get away with these days

and then during whole sequence I’m like half-awake with a full bladder throughout the whole dream so I guess I know I’m dreaming but I don’t? But eventually I’m like “okay I’m about to pee my pants get up before I wet the bed” and so I wake up at like 5:17AM and go to the bathroom and feel all the events that happened in this dream slipping away and desperately try to cling onto any of them I can remember

...

yeahhhhh

and uh now to go to work before I’m late~

[nyrator]

oh boy another dreammm

I went from not remembering any of my dreams to suddenly remembering some of them (this dream was definitely something and the moment I tried remembering it most of it vanished but I’ll do my best)

okay so

starts out in some auditorium, like a school play, right?

Except like, it’s about these people/students/whatever who are reenacting the worst/most traumatizing moments from their life and die doing it

and like, there’s this goth/emo girl who’s kind of the focal character of the dream (she kind of reminded me of Sam from Danny Phantom but more anime/manga-ish), she was either number 4 or 6 on stage, I forget, but before she went on she absolutely refused to do this because like, her role that she had to perform was something something something, something torturous and ended with her drowning and gaining the ability to turn into a frog? Like this was pretty much a public humiliation for her but I forget the exact details of what happened, just the end with the drowning and the frog part.

Anyway, there’s this peppy smug girl who’s running the whole thing (I want to say she was ginger, sort of reminded me of that Wendy’s girl), and she’s egging on Goth girl to do this thing, where it feels like it’s going to kill her if she does it again or something

but anyway the show starts and like... the contestants are weird. Goofy was number one, something about eating something, his son Max was number 2 and something about fishing, 3 was... Chichi I want to say, she came right before Goth girl. So yeah, just Chichi from Dragon Ball, who alternated from her child form and her adult form in my memory, and her’s was just some thing from Majin Buu attacking the city.

Anyway, Goth girl performs out of spite, does something to try turning the tables, but Smug girl gets her way in the end and Goth girl leaves in a huff. Then like, it gets more unstable but like, more acts go on, Smug girl gets reports that Goth girl just committed suicide, somehow she gets stuck performing herself, and for some reason there’s this wheel of bombs and a timer and somehow she gets sent through the other acts, first there was this pixel-art girl going through this weird machine/platform section, and inevitably gets crushed by a slow moving boulder going to the right and dies in a pixelly but upsettingly gruesome fashion. Then Smug girl continues, getting pulled through the water where Goth girl drowned, then pulled by a fishing line by Max, then eventually there’s a scene with Goofy’s mouth getting a bomb or rock in it or something, but the rock or mouth is somehow the Smug girl, and these extras get this triangle and try carving the inside of the mouth to get it out, and like it’s teeth gorn and excruciatingly uncomfortable and you just see them hammering inside this triangle from inside the mouth and yeahhh then I woke up

it was a lot more detailed in my head, especially the Goth girl segments, I can’t remember what happened to her but that was the most important part too, pretty much bullied and public humiliation is all I remember, and for some reason a frog? Also like, all these people pretty much died on stage except dream me glossed over that until the end where she went through all their deaths- also the fact that they’re pretty much forced to act out their deaths as if they already died or something and must die again, it was weird.

I also realize in hindsight that the frog was from Mario as well as the bombs being the Bowser bombs you have to peck at with the bird, so thank you mind for being very creative in my sleep. No idea where Goth Girl/Smug girl came from though, or why Goofy/Max/Chichi were there.

I also had feelings from Are You Afraid of the Dark with the Goth girl, mostly that freaking Chameleon girl episode that’s haunted me since childhood (in short there’s this evil spirit and the boy has to choose which girl is his friend and which one will drown in the well as a Chameleon or something, and the stinger is that he chose wrong and that I just can’t help feeling sick to my stomach about the girl, something along those lines)

[nyrator]

random ny dream update

Ny had a dream last night and it felt very real but was also very embarrassing so not entirely sure if I’ll post it here but yeah, in short I woke up at 2AM from it and didn’t really go back to sleep afterwards and I blame a certain friend I was talking to right before bed entirely for it

I never remember my dreams so when I do I like to write them down and since I don’t have a dream diary I just post them on tumblr

[doc-saturn]

My internet is back!  Now I have like 2 graphical things to complete & then I’m just waiting for beta testers.  Take this incomprehensible meme my man @nyrator made for me on the Dream Diary Development Discord.