The legislation implementing the Digital Games Tax Offset was recently tabled in the lower house of Australian Parliament. It is a 30% rebate on the development costs of video games in Australia and specifically states that writers are covered by the definition of eligible costs, including contract workers. A minimum annual spend of $500,000 is…
Continue readingWe are pleased to announce the release of a minimum rates card for Freelance Narrative Designer – Games and Interactive. We have prepared this document following consultation with our Games and Interactive Committee and other AWG members. These rates are intended to apply to low to medium budget projects commissioned by independent Australian games studios. We…
Continue readingThe Australian Writers’ Guild is working in collaboration with the Games Committee to understand more about the issues that games writers and narrative designers face in the sector. We need your help! In order to summarise trends, standards and rates of pay across contracts, we ask the game development community to please send examples of…
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