Roles : Research officer (February to April 2021) Lecturer (winter 2023) Undergraduate microprogram in esports development at Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières Website : LIEN The course I teach : LCT1003 – Implantation de programmes de sport électronique
Project name: Pariah Date: April to July 2022 Type: Private guild Website: https://pariah.company/ Research sub-project: Digital ethnography Pariah was a bilingual volunteer-run video game guild composed of passionate gamers based in North America. We are not associated with Amazon. New World is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Amazon Games Orange County and…
Here is a first collaboration with Radio-Canada! The first article was a very conclusive test. Unfortunately, due to changes in the team and projects, this project was stopped while the 3rd article was being written. I feel extremely privileged to have been chosen for this e-sports initiative! 2022-03-30 Le Québec, la bête noire qu’on exclut…
Podcast Date: February 2021 to present Partner : CHOQ from the Université du Québec à Montréal Link : https://plugtamanette.com/ Description: A podcast made by students in the master’s degree program in communication, concentration video games and gamification, at UQAM. Every two weeks, we get together to discuss a video game from Quebec!
Short introduction Involved in the online video game and electronic sports communities in Canada since 2002, and full time from 2015, I have acquired a unique expertise and experience that makes me an indispensable asset in the development and implementation of gaming related projects. Thus, in order to be able to put so many volunteer…
Serving the cause of suicide prevention since 2017. Especially towards online communities and gamers. This is one of the main causes that led me to create the Virtual Guardians Foundation. Initially done in 2018 (version 1), the second version is available since 2020 in English and French – This is a guide I created in…
See this page for the updated list: https://savard.work/en/research/ Conferences, workshops and round tables in which I participated: 2022-07 – Montreal Comiccon 2022 2021-05 – ACFAS 2022 Conférence annuelle 2021-09 – Consultation on the use of screens and the health of young people (Québec Gov.) 2021-05 – AéMDC XIXe Colloque (UQAM) 2021-05 – Interactive Symposium 2021…
Client : Parasports QuébecDate: January to March 2021Type: Coordination and research project “The past year has brought its share of challenges to Quebec athletes. Some para-athletes, who are more fragile, have been even more affected by the sanitary measures implemented to counter COVID-19. In order to break the isolation, Parasports Quebec is entering the electronic…
Date: August 2020 to February 2023 (closure of public service) Organization: Virtual Guardian Foundation (VGF) Project: Virtual Guardian Community Role: Project Manager and Instructor, then volunteer support worker Description Free service for prevention and awareness of various issues on the web in the form of a server on the digital platform Discord. (https://discord.com/invite/MfN4w2d) This server, in…
A return to school! Date: August 2020 to present Degree: Master’s degree in communication, concentration in video games (in progress) Where: University of Quebec in Montreal Link to the master’s degree: https://maitrise-communication.uqam.ca/jeux-video-et-ludification/ Program Description Offered since 2013, the concentration in Video Games and Gamification in the Communication MA is dedicated to the study of video…
