Last year I saw a post on this subreddit for a 'Yume Nikki Fangame Jam'. I decided to join, and made my first fangame along with 33 others. You can view last year's entries here.
This year the jam is starting earlier, and will run for over a month. If you've ever wanted to try your hand at making a Yume Nikki fangame, then I encourage you to give it a shot! I never had thought of making a YNFG prior, but it was fun and rewarding. A Discord should be going up soon.
Running どぶ through Denshi Jisho gives me "gutter" as the first response, which is a good deal closer. Dunno where tiger came from, might be a context thing.
An official translation of the light novel is available on Amazon for $6.99, but I think it's available to purchase on other sites too. I missed my chance to read the fan translated version, so I ended up just buying it off Amazon, and the official translation is fine.
Just a tip here, I recommend installing Locale Emulator. It's helped me out SO much and it's just the best option for playing Japanese games at this point, such as Yume 2kki, .flow, and others.
All songs are complete! Yummy details: https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/silent_cicada/yume_nikki_reimagined/
"Yume Nikki" is a remix of BGM_012, which appears on the title screen.
"Following Eyes" is a remix of BGM_021, which plays in Dense Woods B
"Parallax" is a remix of BGM_025, which plays in the Number World.
"Tribal Creature" is a remix of BGM_007, which plays in the Statue World / Shield-Folk World
"Song of Mars" is a remix of BGM_006, which plays in the Martian Underground
"A Window to Her Dreams" is a remix of BGM_034, which plays in Madotsuki's Dream Room
"At Peace on the Edge of the Garden in the Sky" is a remix of BGM_031, which plays in the Sky Garden
"Earth Bound" is a remix of 【FC】BGM_003, which plays in the Famicom Overworld.
"Drizzle" is a remix of BGM_33, which plays in the Puddle World.
"Haunted" is a remix of BGM_035, which plays in the Forest World.
"VIOLATOR" is a remix of BGM_026 which plays during the Red King / FACE event.
"Fear" is a remix of BGM_029, which plays in the Ghost World.
"Lost in the Game" is a remix of 【FC】BGM_007, which plays in the Famicom Castle / Famicom Temple.
I intentionally left out a lot of the more dancey songs - I believe it wouldn't have fit the mood of what I was trying to create, and I figured that enough people probably tackled those already. Since I'm first and foremost an ambient and noise producer, I felt more comfortable making an ambient album with electronic influence, rather than vice versa.
I'm not too sure about what Kikiyama and lol used, but for some other fan games and what I'm doing with a collaboration fan game, make use of bfxr to make sound effects and use LMMS to create the music. I myself would also like to know what was done Nikki's and Flow's tracks. At the moment I'm just experimenting and doing what I can to make them sound familiar.