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"I specifically chose the 2008-2009 school year because it was a weird time to be a queer teenager in California. Proposition 8 brought the gay marriage debate into everyone’s lives. You saw the ads for it on TV and teachers would preach their opinions on gay marriage to the class. A lot of the Butterfly Soup games are about not living up to what society wants and expects of you, so I thought it was the perfect backdrop for a gay teen romance."

As a sequel, Butterfly Soup 2 may not satisfy some of the ships favored by its audience. But it does give developer Brianna Lei, who spoke with Joel Couture as part of our Road to IGF series, a chance to revisit themes from the original, tie up some loose ends, and above all, speak to the teen she once was and try to write what she needed to hear at the time.

Read all about it over at Game Developer.