Whenever a prominent prize-giving event approaches, you'll find an outcry for introducing fresh award types to acknowledge unsung work and delight the passions of followers who have specialized interests.
Another commentator made the case for a horror game category. That would be fantastic. So would strategy board titles, representing someone's personal cause. But they will have to forgive me if I try to elbow in front just as with other blinkered fanatics, I possess a compelling case for why my demand remains most pressing and important of all. This is the request: We need an award type for logic-based games.
Categorizing Game Types
Organizing artistic expressions defies precise measurement; it remains highly personal, and typically start arguments concluding with vague boundaries. It's understandable that cinema institutions don’t do it. But it is an essential concession in the world of interactive entertainment, showing incredible range it's challenging to consider them one unified medium.
For comprehensive acknowledgment of achievement in video games to gain proper attention, and to ensure all game types to have a chance for representation, genre categories are essential.
Existing Game Classification System
Prominent interactive entertainment events currently feature classifications covering Action, Action/Adventure, RPG experiences, Fighting, Simulation and strategy titles, and Sports/Racing games. Together, these classifications effectively encompass a lot of ground, and you can find room for numerous titles.
This doesn't apply to puzzle games. No appropriate category exists to accommodate them. Consider three of this year’s best games, showing diverse approaches: building puzzles of one title, fast-paced pattern recognition in a different title, and the sweetly sociological logic puzzles of a third title. What category would fit them between these six categories? Nowhere, that’s where.
Acknowledgment Issues
Many instances occur outstanding logic titles published annually that have no home in entertainment awards, except when they manage to fit award groups including Handheld titles, Virtual reality experiences, or the intensely contested small studio competitions.
- An iconic brain-teaser received no recognition completely that year
- Another creative title was excluded that year
- Well-received sorting experience got ignored in 2021
- Only a few logic titles barely qualified for niche award types
Importance of Logic Titles
These are often compact experiences, but the art in brain-teasers is of massive significance. Iconic mobile puzzle games count as most popular titles globally and have been for over a decade.
The iconic tile-matching title rivals popular creative games claiming status as highest-selling title ever; it’s also in the running for best game of all time. Brain-teasers form essential building blocks for gaming as medium, while interacting with diverse game types.
Proposal and Rationale
Logic titles wouldn't face this problem. It would be easy to populate multiple candidates interesting, varied, worthy titles annually without trouble — perhaps, with difficulty, since numerous excellent so many good games out.
Restating the point, these include experiences without proper classification at major gaming awards. Brain-teaser creators operate at the challenging frontier interactive creation, developing some of the purest expressions of gaming itself. Similar to cinema stunt performers, they warrant appreciation. Let’s not keep them waiting 35 years.
