Théodore Billotte
Théodore Billotte
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Théodore Billotte

Software & Game Developer

Epitech engineer & indie game developer. I build games, creative tools and back-end systems.

18 projects9 competitions48 technologies

Selected work

Globs

2024 · Commercial puzzle game

Globs

A colorful puzzle game about size-changing blobs.

BetterMap

2026 · Hytale utility mod

BetterMap

The go-to Hytale map mod, with more than 800,000 downloads.

Unstable Rifts

2026 · Hytale roguelike shooter mod

Unstable Rifts

A roguelike game mode for Hytale, award-winning at the New Worlds Modding Contest.

Naucto

2024 · Web platform, Epitech Innovative Project (EIP)In progress

Naucto

A collaborative browser-based fantasy console, inspired by PICO-8.

Shotcave

2024 · Minecraft cooperative roguelike pluginIn progress

Shotcave

A full cooperative roguelike inside Minecraft.

Movie Recommendation System

2025 · Machine Learning project, Tsinghua University

Movie Recommendation System

Movie recommendation: from Matrix Factorization to hybrid Neural CF, benchmarked against a zero-shot LLM.

Configuration-Driven Distributed Data Center

2025 · Distributed Database Systems project, Tsinghua University

Configuration-Driven Distributed Data Center

A geo-distributed data-center simulation for a media platform.

Job Finder

2026 · Web Information Retrieval project, Tsinghua University

Job Finder

French company discovery from a natural-language search brief.

OpenGL Graphics Projects

2026 · Computer Graphics projects, Tsinghua University

OpenGL Graphics Projects

Terrain, water, particles, tessellation, lighting and an interactive Rubik's cube.

Electrain

2025 · Action/puzzle game-jam title

Electrain

An electric robot that must protect a train from bomb monsters.

Maby

2025 · Action/puzzle game-jam title

Maby

A bunny trapped in a looping labyrinth.

The Legend of the Goldfish

2025 · Shooter game-jam title

The Legend of the Goldfish

A diver questing for the legendary goldfish at the bottom of the sea.

Chaser of Dawn

2020 · Survival game-jam title

Chaser of Dawn

Survive on a tiny planet caught in a never-ending dawn.

R-Type

2024 · Academic networked game engine project

R-Type

A networked multiplayer shoot-em-up and its engine, in C++.

Zappy

2024 · Academic networking & AI project

Zappy

A concurrent game server in C, rendered inside Minecraft.

Raytracer

2024 · Academic 3D rendering project

Raytracer

A ray-tracing renderer, extensible through plugins.

Arcade

2024 · Academic software architecture project

Arcade

A retro-gaming platform with hot-swappable graphics libraries.

Corewar

2023 · Academic assembler & VM project

Corewar

A virtual machine where assembly programs battle in memory.

Experience

November 15, 2024 – present

Ninesliced· Co-founder & Developer

Independent game development team

Co-founded an independent game development team with developer, artist and builder friends. We have shipped game-jam titles, a commercial release on Steam/iOS/Android and Hytale mods totaling over 800,000 downloads. My main role is programming, with strong involvement in game design.

Globs →Unstable Rifts →BetterMap →Electrain →Maby →The Legend of the Goldfish →Chaser of Dawn →

March 2025 – June 2025

Palad / Hacker Ouvert· Python Back-end Developer

Internship (4 months)

Joined when the platform was just an idea: helped shape the product, then designed and built the entire back-end (Django) and parts of the front-end, with infrastructure on Scaleway. Architecture enabling cybersecurity courses and labs to be created on the fly and stored in the database: labs described in JSON, courses in Markdown, all rendered dynamically on the front-end. Labs are secured to prevent access to answers.

June 2024 – February 2025

Hyping· Java Developer, Minecraft plugins

Freelance then part-time internship

  • Freelance · June 2024 – December 2024
  • Part-time internship (2 days/week) · September 2024 – February 2025

Java plugin development (Spigot/Folia) for Hyping, one of the largest French-speaking Minecraft servers (500,000+ players). Built custom game modes and gameplay features. Freelance and internship ran in parallel for part of the period.

July 2023 – June 2024

Mon Chasseur Immo· Back-end Developer

Internship then freelance

  • Internship (6 months) · July 2023 – December 2023
  • Freelance · February 2024 – June 2024

At France's leading property-hunting company, I migrated Make/Zapier automations into HubSpot CRM and wrote the Python workflows that HubSpot could not cover cleanly. After finishing the initial assignments ahead of schedule, the scope expanded to back-end development on the company's .NET (C#) application. The collaboration continued freelance after the internship.

Wins & achievements

Education

Epitech

Grande École Program, MSc-equivalent in Information Technology

Montpellier, France · 2022 – present

A five-year, project-based engineering program. The curriculum has taken me through C and C++ in depth, low-level programming (a libc in x86-64 assembly, a Corewar VM), Haskell, Unix systems, networking, object-oriented design, software architecture, graphics, AI, full-stack web (React, NestJS, Vue, SQL) and DevOps (Docker, Jenkins, CI/CD). It emphasizes autonomy, teamwork and competitive events, with Naucto as the multi-year EIP capstone project.

Courses

  • C Programming · 2022-2023
  • Mathematics · 2022-2023
  • Unix & System Programming · 2022-2023
  • Functional Programming · 2022-2023
  • Graphical Programming · 2022-2023
  • Object-Oriented Programming (C++) · 2023-2024
  • Assembly · 2023-2024
  • Networking · 2023-2024
  • Artificial Intelligence · 2023-2024
  • DevOps · 2024-2025
  • Web Development · 2024-2025
  • Epitech Innovative Project (EIP) · 2024-2025

Corewar →Arcade →Raytracer →Zappy →R-Type →Naucto →

Tsinghua University

Academic exchange in Computer Science & AI

Beijing, China · September 2025 – July 2026

A one-year exchange at one of the world's top universities for computer science and AI. I am taking advanced graduate courses in machine learning, distributed databases, big-data systems, computer graphics, NLP, web information retrieval, future internet architecture, algorithm design and combinatorics. Most courses include hands-on projects, alongside Mandarin classes and student life through the video-game club and a game jam in China.

Courses

  • Machine Learning · 2025-2026
  • Distributed Database Systems · 2025-2026
  • Future Internet Architecture · 2025-2026
  • Computer Graphics · 2025-2026
  • Algorithm Design · 2025-2026
  • Introduction to Big Data Systems · 2025-2026
  • Web Information Retrieval · 2025-2026
  • Natural Language Processing · 2025-2026
  • Combinatorics · 2025-2026
  • Elementary Chinese (A) · 2025-2026

Movie Recommendation System →Configuration-Driven Distributed Data Center →Job Finder →OpenGL Graphics Projects →Electrain →

Teams

People I've worked with

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The journey

A scroll through the path so far.

  1. October 2020

    Chaser of Dawn

    Projects

  2. October 2020

    Ludum Dare 47

    Events

  3. 2022 – present

    Epitech

    Education

  4. 2023

    Corewar

    Projects

  5. July 2023 – June 2024

    Mon Chasseur Immo

    Experience

  6. 2024

    Naucto

    Projects

  7. 2024

    Shotcave

    Projects

  8. 2024

    R-Type

    Projects

  9. 2024

    Zappy

    Projects

  10. 2024

    Raytracer

    Projects

  11. 2024

    Arcade

    Projects

  12. June 2024 – February 2025

    Hyping

    Experience

  13. August 2024

    GMTK Game Jam 2024

    Events

  14. November 15, 2024

    Globs

    Projects

  15. November 15, 2024 – present

    Ninesliced

    Experience

  16. 2025

    Movie Recommendation System

    Projects

  17. 2025

    Maby

    Projects

  18. 2025

    Prologin 2025

    Events

  19. 2023-2025

    CYCOM (Hackathon & CTF)

    Events

  20. January 2025

    The Legend of the Goldfish

    Projects

  21. January 2025

    Global Game Jam 2025

    Events

  22. March 2025 – June 2025

    Palad / Hacker Ouvert

    Experience

  23. March 12, 2025

    Master Dev France 2025

    Events

  24. August 2025

    GMTK Game Jam 2025

    Events

  25. September 2025 – July 2026

    Tsinghua University

    Education

  26. November 2025

    Electrain

    Projects

  27. November 2025

    Nago Gamejam

    Events

  28. December 2025

    Configuration-Driven Distributed Data Center

    Projects

  29. 2026

    BetterMap

    Projects

  30. 2026

    Unstable Rifts

    Projects

  31. 2026

    OpenGL Graphics Projects

    Projects

  32. May 2026

    Hytale New Worlds Modding Contest

    Events

  33. June 2026

    Job Finder

    Projects

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