Simon Dor

Simon Dor is an associate professor in video game studies at the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT), at the Montreal centre.

Professor Dor is particularly interested in strategy games, approaching them from the point of view of their playability, their history, their competitive or narrative experience, the cognition they imply and the representation they induce. However, his research and teaching have also led him to take an interest in e-sports, immersion, ethics, emulators and game design. He has been blogging about his research for many years (www.simondor.com) and uses contemporary video game broadcasting tools—Twitch and YouTube—to better understand what these new objects imply about video game culture and to disseminate his research.