A family-built place to play multiplayer mini games — and a hands-on way to learn how real software gets made.
Paseo Verde is a homemade game platform — a little bit like Roblox, but built from scratch by our family. It's a hub where you can log in, browse a growing shelf of mini games, jump into multiplayer rooms with friends, earn points, and climb the leaderboards.
Every game lives in its own folder and plugs into a shared toolkit that handles the tricky parts — logins, rooms, real-time multiplayer, scores, and settings — so new games are quick to add. It runs on Node.js, Socket.io, and Supabase, and it's all written in plain HTML and JavaScript so it stays easy to read and learn from.
More than a website, it's a learning project: a place for the founders to practice real software engineering by shipping real games that real people play.
Paseo Verde is a learning project dressed up as a game site. Instead of learning from a textbook, Anderson and Oliver build games that people actually play — and along the way they pick up the same skills professional software teams (and small businesses) use every day:
Planning a feature, building it, testing it, then shipping it — the whole software development life cycle, one small step at a time.
Every change goes on a branch, into a pull request, gets reviewed, then merged — exactly how real engineering teams ship code together.
Game screens in HTML, Canvas, and JavaScript; a Node.js + Socket.io server for live multiplayer; and a Supabase database holding it all together.
Using AI to generate game content — like quiz questions and drawings — and learning to do it safely, with secret keys kept on the server.
Making games fun, fair, and easy to pick up — tuning difficulty, scoring, and controls (including touch controls so they work on phones).
Sharing games with friends and family, and learning what makes someone want to try something new.
Points, leaderboards, and achievements that give people a reason to come back and keep playing.
Listening to players, fixing bugs, and acting on feedback — because a real product is never truly "done."
Co-Founder
Drummer 🥁, bookworm 📚, and full-time Minecraft architect. Anderson can go from a drum solo to a 300-page novel to a giant pixel city before dinner — and somewhere in there he's always dreaming up the next game to drop into Paseo Verde.
🔗 andersonchau.com
Co-Founder
Math whiz 🧮 and puzzle-slayer. Oliver treats tricky game logic like a boss battle — and usually wins. When he's not engineering the next feature, you'll find him deep in a Minecraft build, quietly plotting his next big idea.
🔗 oliverkchau.com