Turbulent
- Open roles
- 0
- Founded
- 2002
- Employees
- 51-200
- Offices
- 1
About Turbulent
Turbulent is a Montreal creative technology company working across game development, digital platforms and backend infrastructure. Founded in 2002, it develops audience-engagement systems, web applications and interactive experiences for video games, media, culture and education. Its work combines experience design with front-end, full-stack and cloud engineering.
The company's digital platform portfolio includes educational applications for myCECZone and web and digital publishing systems for RICARDO Cuisine. Its services span strategic digital guidance, custom technology development, e-commerce architecture and the engineering of complex online platforms. These activities continue under the Turbulent brand alongside its game development operations.
Game development and connected platforms
Turbulent began collaborating with Cloud Imperium Games in November 2012, designing and implementing the Roberts Space Industries website and its custom crowdfunding and commerce infrastructure. That relationship expanded into community communications, player telemetry, live operations monitoring and game networking. The studio developed Spectrum, an integrated forum, chat and communications platform serving the Star Citizen community.
In November 2020, Turbulent established a dedicated game development division to build locations for Star Citizen's Persistent Universe. Its contributions include planetary locations, landing zones, space clinics and hospital environments. Reported work includes the Orison and New Babbage hospitals, the GrimHex medical center, Maria Pure of Heart Hospital in Lorville and Intergalactic Aerospace Expo environments. The team also develops procedural world-building tools to support environment production.
Ownership and continuing operations
Cloud Imperium UK Ltd. acquired a minority stake in Turbulent in December 2019, followed by Cloud Imperium Group's full acquisition in July 2023. In August 2025, the game development branch adopted the name Cloud Imperium Games Montreal, with work on Star Citizen and Squadron 42. The legal operating company remains Turbulent Media Inc., while the Turbulent agency brand continues to provide web development, proprietary tools and third-party digital platform services.
More about Turbulent
Leadership
- Co-founder Marc Beaudet, formerly Turbulent's CEO, became Senior VP of Studio Operations at Cloud Imperium Games following the acquisition.
- Co-founder Benoit Beauséjour continues as Chief Technology Officer.
- Claire Buffet is identified as VP Strategy & Creation and Head of Operations & HR North America at CIG.
- The report names Guillaume Voghel as Development Director, Pierre-Luc Boulais as Art Director and Louis Rousseau as Lead Game Designer.
Production technology
- Mighty Bridge uses SideFX Houdini to support procedural crash-site, terrain and wreckage placement in game environments.
- Hex is a multi-panel network operations tool for monitoring player inventories, reputation and telemetry.
- The studio's scalable e-commerce and web platform technology includes its C3MS Engine.
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Where Turbulent is based
- 3981 Boulevard Saint-Laurent, Bureau #888, Montréal, QC H2W 1Y5, CanadaMontreal, Quebec, Canada
Montreal Headquarters
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Company headquarters and single direct physical premise shared by Turbulent's digital media and web agency teams and its Cloud Imperium Games Montreal game development division.
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