Wait so we got two people who quit on this project and now a third with a completely different art style working on it? This game sounds like a total mess.
Where'd you get that from? The timeline for the game may be messy, but the product is pretty cohesive. Extended breaks aside, one guy has been working on this game since the beginning.
Timeline is as such:
Wootch starts to create a game called UrbanXLife - it gets to a v.0.2 build, has some art and scenes, and then he buggers off. People are pissed. Along comes Nergal who thinks to himself "Ooh, this looks good, I can make it better", and hires a new artist to make the game over, this time under a new name.
Nergal works diligently on it for some time, getting up to a 0.7 release before he starts to get distracted / lose health / go crazy, so he stops for a time. He eventually releases a 0.8 release. No word has arrived on bug fixes or patches for the game. People are pissed.
ChillyScholar arrives in the forums and starts to mod the game, fixing problems, adding in some new events, mostly for a lark. It begins to take on a life of its own, and the mod becomes a standalone download, separate from the original. People praise him for his work, and his additions to the game, including his own characters, artwork, scenes and dialogues.
Xalenda is just some nobody who thinks "Man, this game is so boring - I wanna be evil, damnit!" and changes the game for his own use. Other people share the same sentiment, and he releases his version for a laugh, with a reworked emphasis on Corruption being more sadistic and cruel than a simple re-working of the Purity line.
ChillyScholar decides he's had enough, releases one final update, and then disappears to start working on his own game.
Nergal decides he's ready to release an alpha build, and does so for his patrons.
Xalenda decides to keep doing his own thing, irrespective of the original creator(s).
As for the artwork: Nergal has commissioned Glassfish (
All hail the wonderful creator~) to do the art for the game. ChillyScholar creates his own characters in her style, places them into his mod. Xalenda can't draw for crap, so he just steals assets because he's a monster.
Hope that clears things up for you!