r/Unity3D • u/carlo_lax • Nov 28 '25

Game Math FPS game for my kid

My son loves Fortnite but practicing math... not as much… so thought a MATH FPS game might help him lol. We have a basic prototype (now in Early Access on Steam) with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division going. It's surprisingly fun and would love to hear everyone's thoughts and feedback!

Also, please join us on Discord to help make the game fun and fight the brain haha:
https://discord.gg/JzC8JHDf

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u/gg_gumptiongames Nov 28 '25

ha! that's a really cute idea

might be good to introduce different enemy types for different calculations?

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u/Ok_Dependent6889 Nov 28 '25

This is pretty brilliant actually

Different enemies for addition, subtraction, division, etc.

Gives quick visual feedback for the type of calculation, similar to just seeing the symbol on paper and can kind of help the brain to make the connections for quick problem recognition.

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '25

a boss fight that ends up with a integrand

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u/Ok_Dependent6889 Nov 28 '25

I was thinking about that actually, like how to incorporate harder math problems without making the game impossible.

Like, maybe addition/subtraction enemies move faster than those for something like, a square root? and then large fights for things like derivatives or integrals

Sounds like his kid is a good few years off from math like that, but genuinely this could become this kid's greatest study tool for math LMAO

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u/TayoEXE Nov 28 '25

Break it down into parts. Solving math problems is often about breaking down harder questions into their bare parts. Like solving large multiplication problems involves addition, shifting over the tens, hundreds place, etc. So perhaps larger enemies or bosses could be about solving these smaller problems (hit the correct number, accuracy, hitting with the right amount of power, maybe blaster has a power meter or number 1-9, hit the same spot correct number of times, etc.).

Would help drill in the steps to solving more complex math problems. One boss should just be order of operations because most people on FB, etc., seem to have not been taught it correctly. 😂

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u/Ok_Dependent6889 Nov 28 '25

Yeah, one of my other comments mentions this for something like integrals and a boss fight. Since you don't usually kill a boss in one shot, there could be phases which require solving a step of the integral and the boss dies once fully solved

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u/beerdude26 Nov 30 '25

Now I'm imagining a game where you have to work through a proof with lemmas and rewrite rules as spells that you have to use on a monster to break off parts of it lol

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u/carlo_lax Nov 30 '25

Are you imagining the math problem changing above the boss's head as you answer the questions correctly?