Dany Guay-Bélanger

Dany Guay-Bélanger is a FRQ and SSHRC 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 was part of the first cohort of COHDS’s Scholar-in-Residence program. Since starting his PhD, he has published several chapters and articles on videogame history and preservation in both French and English, most notably in Games and Culture and Science du jeu, and guest edited a special issue of International Public History. Dany is currently the Francophone Representative of the Canadian Game Studies Association, sits on the History of Games conference steering committee, and coordinator for the SSHRC-funded project “1967-2020 : plus de 50 d’histoire du jeu vidéo au Québec / 1967-2020: Over 50 years of video game history in Quebec.”