Chris Taylor was born in British Columbia and started in the video game industry in the late 1980s at Distinctive Software in Burnaby. His first game was "Hardball II" released in 1989. Taylor moved to Seattle, Washington in January 1996 when he joined Cavedog Entertainment as the designer and project leader for the real-time strategy video game "Total Annihilation" and its first expansion, "". He founded Gas Powered Games in May 1998 and designed the action role-playing game "Dungeon Siege". Its sequel, "Dungeon Siege II", was released in 2005.