Born on 2 April 1968, François-Xavier Talgorn discovered computing at the age of 14 during an evening out with friends, which he spent programming on a calculator TI-57. Two years later, he received his first computer, a Oric Atmoswhich will be followed by a Amstrad CPC. He then started tinkering with a few games in BASICHe quickly developed an interest in music and sound programming. François-Xavier wrote the music for M.G.T./Magnetik Tank (1986) on behalf of Loricielsand then presented a demo at Ubi Soft who hired him for the soundtrack ofInertia (1987).

He will follow this up with a dozen titles, including the PC version of Zombi, Fear of Amityville (1987), Howling or even The Master of Souls (1988). At the end of the 1980s, he left Ubi Soft and went to university, where he obtained a Master's degree in computer science. After wandering for two years as a game designer in an obscure little video game studio, François-Xavier founded his own company. iLABwhich develops educational games, including some twenty CD-ROMs for Hachette Multimedia.

At the end of the 1990s, he joined DURAN DUBOIa specialist in cinema special effects, as head of game design, where he took part in the development of the very first Virtual Skipper (2000) for Ubisoft. At the same time, he also took an interest in marketing through various software projects, and from 2002 he spent two years as Marketing Director at QEDSoftwhich develops 3D technology for the web.

In 2005, he returned to development and travelled the world as an international trainer. Java J2EE and Oracle before joining Lotsysthe group's technology subsidiary Française Des Jeuxfor a casual games platform project. In 2012, François-Xavier returned to hard-core programming with a Masters 2 in Computer Science Research, in which he excelled, leading him to join theUniversity of Paris VIII Vincennes where he teaches and is working on a doctoral thesis entitled "Abstraction et stylisation: du modèle au moteur du rendu", which he plans to defend in December 2018.