Uboachan and Tumblr's Yume Nikki community

Tumblr's Yume Nikki(*and Horror RPG Maker games*) is a collective of RPG Maker enthusiasts, some of them developers, the games developed in that community are of *very varied* quality, and commonly inspired in games of the feel of **The Witch's House**, **Ib**, **Misao**, **Ao Oni** and other similar older indies.

They are also known for hosting small events such as the **Pixel Horror Jam** and the **Dream Diary Jam**

 Some of the most notable releases of the past years include **Pocket Mirror**, and **Aria's Story**.

The relationship between both communities had ups and downs, some users are good friends with people in both communities and even collaborative projects have been known to be born between them.

## **Crossed criticism**

* **Uboachan about Tumblr:**

*Some* Uboachan users think that most of the horror games produced there barely have any horror in them, and generally reduce the genre to exploration games with puzzles, where all you do is collecting keys, like soft versions of the games that inspired them, and that they often have a loli in victorian styled clothes as main character.

Others criticize the Dream Diary Jam because it dedicates to mass produce Yume Nikki fangames, while the common consensus is that the modern catalogue of YNFGs is **OVERCROWDED** with bad and unfinished games, making it harder to find anything barely playable. They also have pointed out that some of the users are newbies, and that making them respect a deadline instead of advicing them to learn on their own pace or to have at least experienced with a "0.00" in the past, will end with them creating a rushed and very bad first game, which can be very frustrating for some new developers.

Some Uboachan users also criticize the **high levels of drama** in the Horror RPG Maker Tumblr community, pointing out that blogs where developers are allowed to "*anonymously*"\* slander each other in a regular basis exists, while they behave like good friends in public.

* **Tumblr about Uboachan**

*Some* Tumblr users consider Uboachan is a "toxic" place with destructive people that enjoy hating on

everything, the admin of the Dream Diary Jam has pointed out(among many other things) Uboachan has "*only 15 people*" who can't get to complete a game.

Other respond to the critics claiming Uboachan is jealous, they also criticize the use of slurs, and associate the website with 4chan, "*problematic*" and "*imageboard culture*" in general.

Uboachan has been criticized for giving very harsh feedback to fangame creators.

Discord server logs, particullary "Dream Diary Jam 2018", "Dream Diary Development" and "Pixel Horror" confirm Uboachan is target of "*roasting*" very often, and surveys made by Tumblr users revealed a large number of hostility against Uboachan calling names like "*Pile of dog shit*" and "*Sexist assholes*".

\****The anonimity of Tumblr blogs is known to be very low**, as they are tools to locate and easily associate an IP with a poster's blog, admins of these sites are also known to leak anon's identities when they deem necessary.*

## Wakana Nikki

Wakana Nikki is a purposely bad game with stolen graphics made by Tumblr game jam admins Pinkuboa and

Rindre, who also made FLUX.

They made a thread in /fg/ pretending to be 2 overly stereotypical 14 year old weaaboo girls, taunting users with continuous emoji, ignoring objective advice and behaving the opposite of what the user guidelines say.

Although some users identified them as troll iimmediately and made fun of them for it, others believed it was actually two young teenage girls attempting to make a game, one of them thinking they may feel discouraged for the wrong steps, even went to their blog to apologize for the general disorder in the thread and wished them good luck.

Administrative action took place in the thread for the disorder and implications of possible minors interacting in the boards, giving also advice to the OP.

Wakana Nikki is openly celebrated in Tumblr communities, they often share fanart, discussion and even fixes of the graphics in the game, implying the possibility of a remake.

* **Note for future editors and drama hunters:** This article is NOT about the Tumblr RPGM Community, but rather about the relationship between both communities, it does not represent Uboachan, the Tumblr RPGM community or the editor's views, it simply documents the public posts made by third parties in both sides like the article about the relation **with the Spanish YN Forum**. Please read **this guide** before editing.

## External links

* Dream Diary Jam thread **https://uboachan.net/fg/res/12992.html**
* Thread about RPG Maker Horror games in Ubuu **https://uboachan.net/ot/res/19194.html**
* Pixel Horror Jam blog **https://pixelhorrorjam.tumblr.com/**
* Wakana Nikki thread **https://uboachan.net/fg/res/10539.html**
* Dream Diary Jam blog(contains some comments on Ubuu) **https://dreamdiaryjam.tumblr.com/**
* Thread discussing the results of Tumblr's survey **https://uboachan.net/ot/res/15010.html**
* Tumblr confessions blog revealing anon's identity(Archive) **https://web.archive.org/web/20180902182126/https://rpgmconfessions.tumblr.com/post/177651798693/i-apologize-for-bringing-back-old-drama-but-since**
* Another instance of a Tumblr's confessions blog revealing anon's identity(Archive) **http://web.archive.org/web/20180906042837/https://rpgmconfessions.tumblr.com/post/177788622847/im-so-sick-of-this-dev-drama-and-furthermore-we**