How did you get into Yume Nikki and/or its fangames?

(FLASHBACK TO THE PAST, BACK IN THE 2010s)
Long ago, I stumbled, while searching for some free games to play, upon a thread speaking about Yume Nikki. Then I got interested, watched a video about it and played it.
The rest of the story is story.
First fangame I tried? Yume 2kki. And it was first the outdated english translation, then the japanese version. Later on, I had created my first Yume Nikki fangame (that REALLY sucked) called The Door.
There was another that I made called Remedy, but this isn't the thread for discarded projects of the past.

Back in... around August 2011, I was buddies with someone, and we mainly wrote Hetalia fanfictions and extremely stupid crossover ships. I was in a chatroom with another friend and we were RPing, and my friend decided to RP as Madotsuki. I had no idea what Yume Nikki or Madotsuki was at the time. They shipped Madotsuki and Masada passionately... Knowing my friend's taste in yaoi, I thought Madotsuki and Masada was a BL couple.
They began to talk about .flow and The Looking Glass. I liked TLG and .flow so much, but I didn't know they were fangames. I also didn't know I could make my own game, so I downloaded RM2K3.
I played .flow under the impression that it was Yume Nikki itself, and finished it in about two days. (I downloaded Yume Nikki soon after and finished it on October 31 2011... ahh, the glory of finding all effects!!)
My first fangame that I knew was a fangame was Answered Prayers. Then I played Me.

I think I found Yume Nikki through random YouTube videos during my hardcore meme phase (everybody has one). Uboa was in one of those random videos, I thought Uboa looked really funny. Then I saw the event and it scared me a lot, I guess I was kind of sensitive at the time. I noped, and tried to forget about Uboa, but kept seeing it everywhere, even in random plz accounts from deviantART! So I tried to find out more about "that one game with Uboa in it" and the more I found, the more scared I was and the more I loved it. I watched the FACE event... then promised myself not to get near Yume Nikki ever again.

Eventually curiosity got me again, but this time the game didn't seem that scary. I looked for YN related art on deviantART and found the Pipi thread on Uboachan. I thought "Hey, what a nice and creative fandom! I'm definitely joining!" and made a Yume Nikki meme about what my mind would look like in a fangame. That idea became Someday, after I changed a lot of stuff so that Itsuki wouldn't be a self-insert, and so that it looked more professional and less reference-y.

The first fangame I played was The Looking Glass, and LcdDem was the first Japanese fangame I played, when PSIWolf translated v0.030 to English. If it wasn't for Rindre and Lichamespia maybe I wouldn't have created Someday, ever.

I don't remember exactly how I got into yume nikki. Actually, I think I might have found uboachan and other related communities before I actually tried a serious playthrough of the game...! I lurked for a long time, playing lots more fangames.

I remember the first fangame I played was Answered Prayers. Around the time Noyemi's first Hell Diary came out was the time i started giving serious thought to making my own games. I spent one christmas break doing nothing but drawing out my first characters and game ideas. I still have sketchbooks full of them.

Well I found a remix for one of YN's BGMs on Youtube. The person who made it recommended the game in the video description, so I looked it up. After completing the game and reading some theories, I heard about these things called 'YN fangames'. I think either Yume 2kki or Answered Prayers was my first fg.

My first experience with Yume Nikki was Uboa. At first, I thought it was some weird version of Snape from harry potter. I ignored Uboa and went on to fangirl about other things. Then I was thrown into the world of horror. Silent Hill was my first taste of horror games in general, soon followed by the Resident Evil series, Creepypasta, and eventually my first psychological horror game. The first time I got a taste for Psychological Horror(PH), was a small indie game called The Path. I was soon obsessed with the game. I eventually found out what kind of Horror game it was called. I soon found more and more PH horror games, and soon, I found Yume Nikki. I looked up a couple of things about the game, and I found Uboa again. (I still think that it's a weird, scarier version of Snape.) So, I downloaded the game, and played it for awhile. Soon, I got the blonde haired girl's house, and just to see if it would happen, I turned off the lights. GOT IT ON THE FIRST TRY MOTHERFUCKERS. BELIEVE THAT. I freaked the fuck out, trying to get out of the room, and eventually I just shut off the game. That dissuaded from playing it again for awhile. Then I found the fangames, I got into them, and then I finally finished Yume Nikki! ....I never knew what happened in the ending until I finished it. God, I was like, crying for 10 minutes. ;A; Poor Maddy...

But yeah, that's how I got into Yume Nikki and it's fangames.

How I got into Yume Nikki? That's a long and funny (I think) story.

The story stared in 2010 if I'm not wrong, in that year I loved to lose my time playing random flashgames. I was playing this thing and reading comments I saw some people saying it was similar to a weird Yume Nikki thing. Innocent me, I decided to search about Yume Nikki because I really loved that flashgame and wanted to play something similar, I lost all the motivation to play it when I read about people calling it an horror game (I'm really coward) and I forget about it until 2012 when I went to visit a friend who loved playing RPG Maker games, she found about Yume Nikki and I told her it was an horror game to discourage her (she knew I didn't like horror-related stuff) but she played it anyway (true friendship), needless to say, the game didn't scare me, on the contrary, I found it very nice and relaxing. After that I think I posted something about "this nice Yume Nikki game" in a forum or something and some random guy told me about fangames.
My first fangame was either Yume 2kki o .flow (more probably .flow tbh) and if I can recall my first western fangame was the Looking Glass (or maybe Me, but I'm almost sure it was TLG). After playing some fangames and seeing how some of them looked like something that a normal human being could make (I'm talking about mid-2012, sometime between June and August) I decided to create my own fangame (and I'm too slow that I just released the first demo two years ago, perfect).