Whenever a major awards ceremony approaches, there’s always an outcry for introducing additional classifications to honor unsung work and fill the spirits of fans with niche passions.
Another commentator made the case advocating for terror-themed awards. That would be fantastic. Equally deserving are strategy board titles, which is a dedicated supporter's campaign. Yet I need to apologize in advance when I prioritize since similar to dedicated enthusiasts, there's a strong justification supporting my request remains most pressing and significant. The demand is this: There should be an award type for logic-based games.
Organizing Gaming Categories
Categorizing art by genre defies precise measurement; opinions vary greatly, and it will always spark debates concluding with vague boundaries. There’s a reason film award organizations steer clear of genre categories. But it is a necessary evil within the realm of interactive entertainment, which are so diverse they hardly constitute a single creative category.
To recognize the complete range of interactive entertainment excellence to gain proper attention, and to ensure all game types to have a chance for representation, classification by type becomes crucial.
Current Gaming Award Categories
The major gaming awards presently include award types recognizing Action, Adventure-action titles, Role-Playing, Fighting, Simulation and strategy titles, and Sports/Racing games. Collectively, these classifications actually cover many game types, making space possible accommodating various experiences.
Not so for brain-teasing titles. No appropriate category exists to accommodate them. Consider three of this year’s best games, each quite distinct: building puzzles in a particular game, intense tile-matching in a different title, thought-provoking social scenarios from additional release. What category would fit them within current classifications? Unfortunately, nowhere.
Acknowledgment Issues
There are dozens outstanding logic titles published annually that have no home during gaming ceremonies, if they accidentally match award groups including Handheld titles, VR/AR Game, or the extremely competitive Indie races.
- An iconic brain-teaser received no recognition completely during that awards season
- Another imaginative release was excluded that year
- A beloved organization game got ignored that year
- Limited numbers of brain-teasers scraped into niche award types
Importance of Logic Titles
Commonly they're small games, however the design in brain-teasers holds tremendous importance. Well-known matching games rank among most popular titles in the world continuing this trend for many years.
The iconic tile-matching title competes with famous sandbox experiences claiming status as highest-selling title ever; it additionally competes as greatest title ever. Brain-teasers form essential building blocks to the art of video games, while interacting with diverse game types.
Proposal and Rationale
Puzzle games wouldn’t have that issue. One could readily select a field of five with fascinating, diverse, deserving games every year with ease — or rather, with difficulty, because you’d have to leave numerous deserving experiences.
To emphasize again, these are games without proper classification at major gaming awards. Puzzle game makers are working at the challenging frontier game development, creating some of the purest expressions of the video game form. Similar to film action specialists, they merit acknowledgment. Don't make them wait decades.
