Each time a major honors show draws close, you'll find a clamor to include fresh award types to honor underappreciated efforts and fill the spirits of fans with niche passions.
Another commentator has already made supporting a scary games classification. That would rule. Equally deserving are tabletop games, which is a dedicated supporter's campaign. Yet I need to apologize in advance if I try to elbow in front just as with other dedicated enthusiasts, I possess a compelling case for why my demand is the most urgent and significant. The demand is this: We need an award type for logic-based games.
Organizing Gaming Categories
Categorizing art by genre defies precise measurement; it remains highly personal, and inevitably generate discussions and end in fuzzy definitions. This explains why cinema institutions don’t do it. Yet it remains an unavoidable compromise for the industry of gaming, that demonstrate such variety they hardly constitute a single creative category.
For the full spectrum of interactive entertainment excellence to be recognized, while allowing diverse titles to have a chance for representation, genre categories are essential.
Current Gaming Award Categories
The major gaming awards presently include award types recognizing Action, Adventure-action titles, Role-Playing, Combat games, Simulation and strategy titles, plus athletic and racing experiences. Between them, these six categories successfully include numerous genres, making space possible for most games within them.
This doesn't apply to puzzle games. There’s simply nowhere to put them. Examine these examples from recent excellent titles, each quite distinct: structural challenges of one title, fast-paced pattern recognition from another release, engaging interpersonal challenges in another game. What category would fit them between these six categories? Nowhere, that’s where.
The Representation Problem
There are dozens outstanding logic titles launched regularly that have no home in entertainment awards, if they accidentally match classification types such as Mobile Game, VR/AR Game, or the intensely contested small studio competitions.
- A renowned logic title wasn’t nominated completely in 2014
- Another imaginative release missed out in 2019
- A beloved organization game was overlooked recently
- Only a few brain-teasers barely qualified for independent or mobile categories
Importance of Logic Titles
Commonly they're small games, yet the craft in brain-teasers holds tremendous importance. Famous handheld logic titles stand as most engaged experiences in the world maintaining this status for many years.
The iconic tile-matching title rivals well-known building titles competing to become highest-selling title ever; it also contends for best game of all time. Logic titles represent cornerstones to the art of video games, and they are in conversation across multiple categories.
Proposal and Rationale
Puzzle games wouldn’t have this problem. You could fill five nominees with fascinating, diverse, deserving games annually without trouble — actually, with challenge, since numerous excellent many worthy titles.
And to reiterate, these represent titles that otherwise have no home at major gaming awards. Brain-teaser creators function at the challenging frontier interactive creation, producing among essential manifestations of gaming itself. Just like cinema stunt performers, they deserve recognition. Don't make them wait generations.
