Vienna Game Dev Meetup

The Tax-Returns Exploit
And other hidden lore for Austrian Game Devs

Maria Hejlek is a Technical Game Designer with over 10 years of experience in the industry and the founder of Eightfinity Games. In this talk she'll take you along her journey, sharing the many strange titbits and useful learnings she picked up along the way. From building her portfolio while still at university, to figuring out tax deductibles while employed, and finally to diving into the deep end and going freelance in a job-scarce market. Do you have a mandatory internship because of your university studies coming up? Do you not know what the Arbeitnehmerveranlagung is or how to get the most out of it? Or are you thinking of going freelance, but don't know where to start?

Maria shares the good, the bad, and the ugly she encountered over the years, so you can profit from niche information that people usually don't hold talks about. This talk is discipline agnostic - no matter if you are a sound designer, vfx artist, tools programmer, compliance tester, publisher liaison, or any other dev in games, or whether you are a student, employed, unemployed, or self-employed, this talk is for you.

After some announcement we will look at at least 2 games
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