Have you considered working with FatalFire? You two have similar games and it seems like the idea could benefit from the both of you.
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I dont think they would benefit of it, since they work on different types. This game is about free roaming, while the other seems to be more a Visual Novel style, with free roam.
If they started working together, one of them would have to discard their project for the other to succeed. That, or double the workload for both of them.