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“We have women in the dev team–not that many because it’s still the video game industry and there are not that many women–but we have women working on the game,” Koch said. “And our writer, which is an American writer we’ve worked with before, he’s consulting with his nieces. He’s showing scripts to them, to read it and see if it feels genuine and fresh.”

A recent study showed that women make up 22 percent of the global video game industry workforce, which is double the figure from 2009.

The topic of the representation of women in games has been a major talking point this year, following news out of E3 in June that Assassin’s Creed Unity and Far Cry 4 would not feature playable female characters. Opinions on the subject have flooded in, with some people saying Ubisoft was unfairly singled out, while others maintain that the industry should not shy away from the women in games discussion.

Following Remember Me’s release last year, Dontnod revealed that before it landed a publishing deal with Capcom, other publishers didn’t want to work with them because they thought having a women in a leading role would limit the game’s sales potential.

Life is Strange was announced on Monday and launches in 2015 for Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and PC. It will be released episodically, much like Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead. The game’s unique twist is that Max can rewind time to see how events would unfold if she took a different course of action. For more on the game, which also has lovely hand-drawn art and is published by Square Enix, check out the video above.