Glife was around long before Province Girl, but after ETO. G-Life is more than it's own game now where as Province Girl was basically a remake of ETO and a poor one at that IMHO.
Sorry to drag this old post up but its not fair on PG so I'll add a little clarity:
GL was mostly a translation project for some time (I know I translated hundreds of files) but it had started to add its own functions and content when PG started. We communicated with each other (not as much as I would have wanted) and shared a number of stories and events, even code. It was never a competition and we always wanted to see PG succeed. PG was far more than just a remake of ETO, it had to be ETO didn't even have the Pav school (that was from a mod after DeGross had quit ETO).
We learnt a lot from PG and it helped GL grow and expand, I hope in turn PG benfitted from us.
As for Province Guy, what I see has great promise and I wish you all the best with your project. If you ever need anything just let us know and we'll do what we can to help.