About

Leonardo Sameshima Taba

I’m a software developer who likes playing indie games and sometimes non-indie games. Sometimes I write about them. I’m also trying to be a hobbyist game developer.

• leotaba at gmail
• Github ⤴
• LinkedIn ⤴
• Instagram ⤴
• Youtube ⤴

Games

• Cubic’s Ad-venture ⤴ - a 2D platformer with personality. Developed with my nephew Gui_Sei ⤴. Built with the Construct 3 ⤴ engine. See the blog post for more details (2024-2026)

• Cat Catcher 0 ⤴ - Arcade style game developed for the PICO-8 ⤴ virtual console (source code) ⤴ (2019)

• Atritus ⤴ - Tetris clone developed with the LÖVE ⤴ library (source code) ⤴ (2017)

• Invaders from Space - Space invaders clone developed with the LÖVE ⤴ library (2013)

Projects

• IR Fácil - System that facilitates calculating the taxes that are due when you sell stocks in the Brazilian stock exchange (2019-discontinued)
• Kifu Recorder ⤴ - Android application that automatically registers Go games in SGF format by using computational vision techniques (2015-)
• AMX authorization header ⤴ - Node library for the generation of AMX authorization headers, used in some Brazilian cryptocurrency exchanges (source code) ⤴ (2019)

Academic work

Developed during my masters at UFSCar (2013) and specialization at São Carlos’s IFSP (2016).

• Automatic recording of Go games using image processing embedded in mobile devices (2016) (Portuguese) PDF bib
• Automatic semantic relation extraction from Portuguese texts (2014) - PDF bib
• Extração automática de relações semânticas a partir de textos escritos em português do Brasil (2013) - PDF bib
• Automatic hyponymy identification from Brazilian Portuguese texts (2012) - bib

Etc

• 10th world place ⤴ in reaching the fastest 99999 points in Tetris Attack