MTV has up yet another with a woman involved in the videogame industry, and this time they are talking to Brenda Brathwaite, who has been in the industry for 26 years, and is the chair and founder of the International Game Developers Association’s Sex Special Interest Group among other things.

From the article:

Multiplayer: Did you feel that you faced any challenges that men wouldn’t have faced along your career?

Brathwaite: No, if anything it’s been a bonus. For instance, I’m doing this interview right now because I’m a woman in games, and I’ve done many because I was a woman in games. It’s also important to have that diversity of opinion on a team, and a lot of companies recognize that. So that’s been helpful. I haven’t experienced, except once, anything that I would say was discrimination because of my gender. And then I would chalk it up to the guy being an idiot more than I would chalk it up to intentional discrimination. I just really think he was an idiot.

If anything, the gaming industry is a fairly liberal, hip place, and if you’re making games people really don’t care what your gender is. At least this has been my experience. I’m not really a tomboy, but I’m used to working with guys. I’ve always worked with guys. If I were in an office with all women I think I would feel really odd. So it’s been a benefit to me in that respect. Absolutely, I think it’s been a tremendous benefit to me.

Oh, I know a couple things. You know some interesting things have happened. The company that I worked for had no maternity policy or maternity leave policy. Suddenly, here I am horrifically pregnant with twins, and so that had to be instituted. So I have been the creator of firsts.

I remember going to GDC one year, and I had the twins, it wasn’t last year but the year before, and I was still nursing. And did they have a place where I could do that? And it was just, “What are you talking about?” Eventually they had the nurse’s station that they had there, we were allowed to use that. But at the time it was sort of an odd question. I don’t think it was an intentional oversight. I just think it hadn’t come up, and when it did come up arrangements, were certainly made.

Read the full article over at MTV.com