Gauthier Billot
Co-Owner at Fire Falcom
Mons, Hainaut, Belgium
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Top SchoolGauthier Billot is a seasoned application and game developer with 17 years of experience, currently co-owning indie studio Fire Falcom from Mons, Belgium. He blends hands-on engine-level work with product leadership, having progressed from developer to lead developer at Fishing Cactus before founding his studio. Deeply familiar with 2D/3D systems, his open-source contributions to the Urho3D engine include concrete enhancements to sprite rendering and data handling that improved performance and flexibility. Comfortable across platforms and Linux-centric workflows, he combines pragmatic C++/engine engineering with a game-maker’s eye for polish and playability. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who moves fluidly between core engine fixes and higher-level design decisions.
17 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Collège Sainte-Marie - Saint-GhislainBachelor, Computer, Bachelor, Computer at Haute Ecole Provinciale Mons-Borinage-Centre
French, English
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Github Skills (18)
c-language10
3d-graphics10
game-engine10
graphics2d10
game-dev10
engine10
game-development10
cprogramming-language10
2d10
mono9
unity-game-engine9
cpp9
overriding6
omnisharp6
haxe6
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
urho3d/urho3d
Nov 2016 - Jan 2017
Game engine
Role in this project:
Game Developer (focus on 2D/3D Engine Implementation)
Game Developer (focus on 2D/3D Engine Implementation)Contributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 10 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Gauthier significantly contributed to the Urho3D game engine by adding and modifying features within the Urho2D and core Variant systems. Their work included adding new functionalities like `SetDrawRect`, `SetTextureRect`, and `SetUse[Draw/Texture]Rect` for `StaticSprite2D`, enhancing the engine's 2D rendering capabilities. Furthermore, the user updated the `Variant` class to support the `Rect` data type, increasing the engine's data handling flexibility, along with attribute registration for the user interface. Their contributions are focused on engine feature improvements and code corrections to improve performance.
angelscriptcppgamegamedev2d
firefalcom/gameoff2020
Nov 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:65 commits in 18 days
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