SAG-Aftra Union creates a deal for students and Game Jam Devs to work with acting talent

SAG-AftraFederation of actors, Declared agreements To allow both Game Jam students and participants to work with union artists, despite the continuous video games strike.

The Federation has established the interactive waiver agreement for students and the Game Jam Convention, both of which provide video game developers at each stage of their career to work with the performance of the Federation.

“Through these new agreements, SAG-Aftra can help support game developers at all levels who want to work with trade union talents and who want to learn more about producing video games under a union contract. In addition, our members are excited about this industry and want to be able to participate in these types of projects where the future of video games is formed.”

It is designed for students who are currently taking video game courses in an accredited educational institution, and the interactive waiver agreement provides students with students an opportunity to work with SAG-Aftra artists to meet the requirements of the course while developing the game. The project must be registered entirely in the United States and must be owned by the student, as a product or signature, and also meet some other requirements. To start registering your project, Please click here.

The Game Jam Advance Agreement is designed for developers who create video games in the “Game Jam” events, where designers and programmers work together as one team to create video games of A to Z. The project may not include the materials recorded before the start of the event.

Under this agreement, participants can work with SAG-Aftra performance, session fees and secondary payments, provided that the project does not generate revenues. If the project creates revenues, SAG-Aftra will work with participants to sign the project on the appropriate agreement.

These two new agreements join temporary Emiratization and temporary and interactive localization agreements as contracts that can work safely during the strike. To date, more than 180 games have been signed on temporary and distributed video game agreements.

“With their comfortable creativity and freedom of experience, student and game educators’ projects are fun and specially rewarding for the interior and representatives of cooperation. I am pleased that this cooperation can now be absorbed by a union contract only for them only for them, they can become in the field of communication with talents in the agreement.