{"rewrite":{"id":"r_aeab2930f074bdda8542423c","clusterId":"c_cd2d3c5b3d880323b4815a96","slug":"gentle-gimmick-games-turns-ad-math-into-a-bullet-hell-shooter","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Gentle Gimmick Games Turns Ad Math Into A Bullet-Hell Shooter","summary":"At OSAKA INDIE GAMES SUMMIT 2026 on October 3 and 4, Gentle Gimmick Games showed MAaaaaTH!, a bullet-hell shooter built on the arithmetic gates seen in mobile game ads. Gates carry expressions like X+log10(8) and B times the square root of 8. The four variables A, B, X, and Y determine life, movement speed, attack power, and other stats through equations, so a larger value does not always mean a stronger ship.","whyItMatters":"The ad-gate gag is only the hook; the real design is a shooter where reading each equation, not reflex alone, decides whether your ship survives the next wave.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe premise came from frustration: the developer says the trigger was game ads that keep getting simple arithmetic wrong. In the game, the Math God hears a wish to never see those ads again, misreads it, and traps humanity in a prison of arithmetic. Stages put gates on screen, but the labels are expressions you cannot judge at a glance, and enemy bullets keep coming while you decide.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStats are not bought with flat upgrades. Clearing a stage earns Quartz, and equipping them into a weapon\u0026#39;s four slots rewrites the equations themselves. Quartz carry math names, including Epsilon-Delta, Zeta Function, Sequence, Vector, and Origin Point, with system names such as Fibonacci Systems and Riemann Analytics. Enemies and bosses follow the same logic, appearing as asteroids, cardioids, and trefoil knots.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"MAaaaaTH! builds ship stats from equations, so a bigger number can produce a weaker ship. Gentle Gimmick Games made the math the build itself.","twitterPost":"MAaaaaTH! makes a bigger number a weaker ship. Gentle Gimmick Games turned the ad math into the actual build.","threadsPost":"MAaaaaTH! runs ship stats through equations rather than fixed upgrades, so putting a larger number into a gate can leave a player weaker than a smaller one. Gentle Gimmick Games built the four variables A, B, X, and Y so the math itself is the difficulty.","newsletterBlurb":"At OSAKA INDIE GAMES SUMMIT 2026, Gentle Gimmick Games showed MAaaaaTH!, a bullet-hell shooter where the calculation gates from mobile ads carry real expressions like X+log10(8). Your ship's life, movement speed, and attack power come from equations of four variables, and Quartz rewards rewrite those equations between stages.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"4Gamer.net\",\"url\":\"https://www.4gamer.net/games/013/G101328/20261006016/\",\"title\":\"The \\\"calculation gates\\\" from those ubiquitous ads are back as serious math. Playing \\\"MAaaaaTH!\\\", a bullet-hell shooter where you build your ship's stats with equations [OIGS 2026]\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4728,"outputTokens":682,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1791275827,"createdAt":"2026-10-06T08:33:33.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-06T08:36:05.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-06T08:36:05.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_cd2d3c5b3d880323b4815a96","canonicalTitle":"広告によく出てくる“計算ゲート”が，本気の数学になって帰ってきた。自機の性能を数式でビルドする弾幕シューティング「MAaaaaTH!」をプレイ［OIGS 2026］","representativeArticleId":"a_e55f893191051b94db71ce80","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"MAaaaaTH!\"],\"studios\":[\"Gentle Gimmick Games\"],\"people\":[],\"type\":\"event\",\"domain\":\"games\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-10-06T07:45:16.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-10-06T07:45:16.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-06T08:36:06.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"4Gamer.net","url":"https://www.4gamer.net/games/013/G101328/20261006016/","title":"広告によく出てくる“計算ゲート”が，本気の数学になって帰ってきた。自機の性能を数式でビルドする弾幕シューティング「MAaaaaTH!」をプレイ［OIGS 2026］"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["MAaaaaTH!"],"studios":["Gentle Gimmick Games"],"people":[],"type":"event","domain":"games","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}