I'm working on a game right now not connected in any way to the yumeverse. It's about dreams though, and playing YN certainly did inspire me to get off my ass and make it.
Unlike Yume NIkki, there is plot and dialogue throughout the game, as well as (and in much the same vein as YN) a huge amount of exploration and puzzle solving.
I'll try to get the demo up within the next few weeks or so, but I'd like to ask you guys what to do so that my game doesn't piss you off.
You know, the YN fangame's equivalent of mary sues, etc.
Also, if there's anything you'd like to see within the game, feel free to let me know. :)
-Plot-
It's not easy, jumping from three dimensions to ten. Perhaps that's why so few beings manage it. Usually, the coiled up power of all that infinity burns a person out. But in a very, very small number of cases, a person can become omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent. No human has ever managed it. In fact, only two entities in the entire history(s?) of the multiverse ever have.
But still, many struggle to join them...
A human being named Thomas Berret is contacted in his sleep my an alien named Yuzi, who tells him that, due to the unfortunate fact that he is the only being with the right mental field in our solar system, he must prevent a catastrophe being engineered by a rouge agent within the human race's collective consciousness. This renegade personality calls itself Tartarus, and is hell bent on effecting a convergence of the dream world and the physical.
The galactic migration committee has sealed off our system's M-space routs (meme-space: a way of traveling faster than light by hopping from mind to mind) to protect the rest of the galaxy from collapsing into Tartarus' dream, and they've dispatched a fleet to our system which, taking the slower subspace routes, will arrive in twenty days. They plan to destroy our system before Tartarus grows too powerful.
So basically, it's up to you to enter the dreamscape and fight Tartarus.
Of course, there's more to it than that...
I've been working on the pre-production for seven absinthe addled months, and I'm only going into the actual design tonight.
BTW, Pic related. It's a character in the game. Well, I originally drew it for a YN fangame's contest, but I like her so much I'm going to give her a cameo in mine. :B
Hope this post isn't too long...