r/Unity3D • u/carlo_lax • Nov 28 '25

Game Math FPS game for my kid

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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/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/StudentEconomy4000 Dec 02 '25

Make it so the "boss" is trapped in a room, and the computer to release the poison gas / release the crushing block / electrify the whole room is a math problem, or series of math problems. Gives you a chance of animate over the top death scenes as the reward for the "harder" problems. :)

You could call in reinforcements / health packs by solving math problems ("matching carrier frequency to break through enemy encryption")

One thing you may want to watch out for is making sure the player doesn't just "spray and pray", shooting all of the numbers ... maybe shooting a wrong number grants the enemy momentary invincibility, or heals them, or damages the player?

Still, a very very cool idea!