David Simão

David Simão

Software Engineer · Lisbon, Portugal

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Projects & Experiments

  • The Grid

    A traffic management game set inside a computer. The player builds copper wiring to connect transistors and microchips, routing colored signals between them..

    Live Itch.io
  • Echoes of Deception — Virtual Escape Room

    A virtual escape room built around the Echoes of Deception story. Players solve puzzles and riddles to uncover the truth about the mysterious disappearance of Dr. Sinclair.

    Live Itch.io
  • Retro Shooter

    An old-school side-scrolling shooter built for experimenting with the TIC-80 fantasy console. Fully vibecoded in Lua using gemini-cli.

    GitHub Live
  • Game of Life

    Conway's Game of Life with the engine written in Rust, compiled to WebAssembly, and rendered on an HTML canvas via a JavaScript bridge.

    GitHub Live
  • Movie Quiz

    Guess the movie from emoji clues. Built on Cloudflare Workers with KV for server-side sessions. UI prototyped with Vercel v0.

    Live
  • URL Fox

    URL shortener built on Cloudflare Workers with KV storage and CRC32 hashing. Inspired by the system design in Alex Xu's System Design Interview.

    Live
  • Config Monkey

    A lightweight HTTP service for managing app configurations across multiple environments, built with Rocket.rs while learning Rust.

    GitHub
  • Echoes of Deception — Interactive Fiction

    An interactive fiction story built with the Narrat engine, written for the Neo Twiny Jam 24 — a competition to tell a story in 500 words or fewer.

    GitHub Itch.io Live

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