Dany Guay-Bélanger

Dany Guay-Bélanger is a FRQ-funded PhD candidate in Game Studies at the Université de Montréal and holds a master’s degree in Public History from Carleton University. He created a podcast that explores the development and application of Deadplay, a methodology favouring a holistic approach for the preservation and study of videogames as cultural heritage artefacts. His research aims to perfect and concretize the methodology developed during his master’s in order to allow players and researchers, present and future, to access videogames from every eras of this medium’s history. Dany has also interned and was the Garth Wilson Fellow at the Canada Science and Technology Museum and is currently the Francophone Representative of the Canadian Game Studies Association.