Last thing that I'm going to say about it, because this thread is not about me, Sweet Affection or my team.
It's about Research into Corruption and Fallen Angels, they deserve the attention.
Here is the time-line how everything happened.
1. Subliminal Corruption was started by Boomatica.
2. Subliminal Corruption was reformed into Research into Corruption.
3. Research into Corruption had to be abandoned because of Patreon guidelines.
4. Research into Corruption was handed over to Drsmith (And, all ties were broken, at that stage)
5. Private Community was started.
6. People really missed Research into Corruption, so Boomatica decided to start a new game called Research into Affection but completely within the Patreon guidelines.
7. He hired me and I took over full development of Research into affection and started working on it, full time(This was around level 4) (this was about 3 and a half years ago)
8. DrSmith fell ill and had to abandon Research into Corruption.
9. Because of multiple reasons, I changed the name of Research into Affection into Sweet Affection.
(Mainly because the former title did not fit the game anymore.)
10. DrSmith handed Research into Corruption over to Dark Coven.
And, here we are, many years later.(Forgive me if I forgot something, it's been a long couple of years.
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Initially, yes... RiA was supposed to be sweeter version of RiC.
But, that changed quickly when we started working on it, because making a copy wouldn't do justice to a story or characters.
RiA became it's own original game and gradually changed into Sweet Affection, and into the game it is now.
(Some of the mechanics you mentioned have been expanded on, but some of them have or will be removed. And introduced a dozen other new characters.)
Right now, they are two completely different games with different ideas, different themes and story-lines.
Two different games being developed by two different teams that have nothing to do with each other.
And, to avoid any further confusion, this will be my last message on this thread.
But, people can always link back to my messages when people are curious.
For now, I wish Fallen Angels good luck with further development of this project.
And, I hope that everything will go smooth!