As any major honors show draws close, you'll find a demand for introducing additional classifications to honor underappreciated efforts and delight the hearts of enthusiasts dedicated to specific genres.
Another commentator has already made for a horror game category. That would rule. So would strategy board titles, representing a passionate advocate's mission. However, I must insist if I try to elbow in front since similar to dedicated enthusiasts, I have a cast-iron argument for why my demand is the most urgent above others. The demand is this: We need an award type for logic-based games.
The Genre Classification Challenge
Classifying creative works isn't exact; it remains highly personal, and typically start arguments concluding with vague boundaries. This explains why movie academies avoid this approach. However, it represents an essential concession in the world of video games, showing incredible range it's challenging to consider them a single creative category.
To recognize the complete range of achievement in video games to be recognized, and for games of all stripes to compete fairly, specific award classifications remain vital.
Present Award Structure
The major gaming awards offer these genre categories for Action-oriented games, Adventure-action titles, RPG experiences, Combat games, Sim/Strategy, and Sports/Racing games. Together, these award types effectively encompass a lot of ground, and you can find room for numerous titles.
Different situation exists for puzzle games. No suitable classification appears to put them. Think about these outstanding current releases, all very different: building puzzles from a specific release, intense tile-matching in a different title, engaging interpersonal challenges of a third title. Which classification works among existing types? Unfortunately, nowhere.
Recognition Challenges
Many instances occur excellent brain-teasers released every year without proper recognition during gaming ceremonies, unless they happen to qualify award groups including Handheld titles, Virtual reality experiences, or the intensely contested independent game categories.
- An iconic brain-teaser received no recognition completely during that awards season
- Another creative title received no nominations during that ceremony
- Well-received sorting experience received no acknowledgment in 2021
- Only a few puzzle games managed to sneak into small studio or handheld classifications
Importance of Logic Titles
Commonly they're compact experiences, yet the craft in brain-teasers carries substantial weight. Iconic mobile puzzle games count as most popular titles globally and have been for many years.
The iconic tile-matching title competes with famous sandbox experiences for the title of most purchased experience; it’s also in the running for best game of all time. Logic titles represent cornerstones within interactive entertainment, and engaging across multiple categories.
Recommendation and Reasoning
Logic titles wouldn't face that issue. It would be easy to populate a field of five with fascinating, diverse, deserving games annually without trouble — actually, with challenge, given the need to exclude so many good games out.
Restating the point, these represent titles that otherwise have no home in important events. Logic title developers operate at the hard edge of video game design, producing among the purest expressions of the video game form. Similar to cinema stunt performers, they deserve recognition. We shouldn't delay decades.
