Michel Royer - Technical Director As a top technologist and game designer at the largest game company in Europe, Infogrames, and a founder and technical director at Xatrix Entertainment, Michel has created products (Drakkhen, Eternan, Chaos Control, Cyberia, Cyberia2: Resurrection and many games on Atari, Amiga, FM-Towns, PC) that have made quite a few dollars/francs for other people over the last ten years.

Michel received his Engineering Degree specializing in Robotics, Computer Hardware Design, Software Engineering, Data Structures and Algorithms, Compression Techniques, Micro-electronics, Product Development, Management and English from National Institute of Applied Sciences of Toulouse, France in 1986. In his spare time he practices for the Tour de France. Michel’s forte (besides time compression) is surveying the technology landscape and the game market and predicting where each will be in 18 months, then getting there first.

Spencer Levy - Art Director An accomplished artist and designer, Spencer has created 3D computer graphics for television at MetroLight, special effects for film at DreamQuest Images, game production at Black Ops and Sony Imagesoft and for Xatrix Entertainment as senior animator and segment director on Cyberia2:Resurrection.

Spencer studied Transportation Design with emphasis on computer design at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California and received his BFA in Industrial Design from Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. He is also fond of any vehicle with a stupid-fast speed rating - cars, motorcycles, turbo hopped hover fighters…

Pierre Schiro - Lead Programmer Programmer, assistant game designer and tool wizard with arcade action chromosomes, Pierre started at Infogrames on Prisoner of Ice. For Xatrix Entertainment he was lead programmer on Cyberia, did additional programming and tuned action sequences for Cyberia2:Resurrection. At I-Motion he designed game concepts and tools then was lead programmer and assistant game designer on Torquen Studios’ Smaug.

Pierre received a Diplome Universitaire de technologie d’informatique from Institut Universitaire de Technologie, Villeurbanne, France in 1992. He is also our best cook.

Joan Wood - President An entrepreneur with the driving creative, technical and management force to found three successful, innovative broadcast entertainment companies in ten years, an independent video and sound engineer, technical director and producer with hundreds of TV credits, Joan made the leap to game development in 1991.

A founder at Xatrix Entertainment, she produced the hit CD-ROM game Cyberia and produced and directed the monster sequel Cyberia2:Resurrection. All that time fully immersed in the entertainment industry have given her a taste for the fast life and a habit of sleeping under her desk.