As SAG-AFTRAs video game strike continues, the AAA developer Lightspeed LA has signed an interim agreement with the labor group that will allow it to continue working with union performers.

By signing the pact, the five-year-old developer can finish its work on its first project, the dystopian open-world game Last Sentinel, and work with SAG-AFTRA performers on future titles. Lightspeed LA is a division of Lightspeed Studios, behind Undawn, Titans: Last Stand and Code: To Jin Yong.

The unions interim agreement, reflecting its demands in the ongoing stalemate with major video game developers, requires performers to consent to any use of AI at particular stages and be paid for that usage. Employers must tell an actor either at an audition or job offer if they are seeking to create a digital replica of that person, for instance, and get a greenlight from the performer and negotiate pay before that digital replica is used. The agreement also provides for a wage increase of 7 percent effective July 26 and 7.64 percent starting Nov. 7 and a health and retirement contribution rate increase of 17 percent. Lightspeed L.A. has always recognized and valued the irreplaceable role of talent, which injects creativity, innovation, and the human touch into video games, Lightspeed LA general manager Steve Martin said in a statement. Supporting our cast is the right thing to do and there was never any hesitation to consider the performer protections that anchor this agreement.

SAG-AFTRA called its strike against firms including Activision Blizzard, Electronic Arts, Warner Bros. Games, Insomniac Games and Disney Character Voices on July 25.

More to come.