Each time a significant honors show draws close, one notices an outcry for the addition fresh award types to recognize unsung work and delight the hearts of fans who have specialized interests.
A fellow writer has already made for a horror game category. That would be fantastic. The same goes for tabletop games, this being a dedicated supporter's campaign. Yet I need to apologize in advance for pushing forward since similar to dedicated enthusiasts, I possess a compelling case supporting my request remains most pressing and significant. The demand is this: There should be an award type for logic-based games.
Categorizing Game Types
Organizing artistic expressions is not a science; it’s very subjective, and typically start arguments and end in fuzzy definitions. It's understandable that cinema institutions avoid this approach. But it is a necessary evil within the realm of gaming, which are so diverse it's challenging to consider them one unified medium.
For the full spectrum of achievement in video games to be recognized, while allowing diverse titles to receive proper recognition, specific award classifications remain vital.
Existing Game Classification System
Leading game ceremonies offer these award types recognizing Action-oriented games, Adventure-action titles, Role-Playing, Fighting, Sim/Strategy, and Sports/Racing games. Between them, these classifications actually cover many game types, and you can find room for numerous titles.
This doesn't apply to brain-teasing titles. There’s simply nowhere to put them. Examine these examples from this year’s best games, all very different: the architectural riddles of one title, intense tile-matching of another game, and the sweetly sociological logic puzzles in another game. Which classification works within current classifications? Nowhere, that’s where.
Acknowledgment Issues
Many instances occur of brilliant puzzle games launched regularly without proper recognition at major award shows, if they accidentally match award groups including Mobile Game, Virtual reality experiences, or the extremely competitive Indie races.
- An iconic brain-teaser wasn’t nominated in any category during that awards season
- Another imaginative release was excluded that year
- Well-received sorting experience received no acknowledgment in 2021
- Limited numbers of puzzle games barely qualified for independent or mobile categories
Importance of Logic Titles
Frequently they represent modest productions, however the design in brain-teasers holds tremendous importance. Iconic mobile puzzle games rank among the most-played games in the world and have been for many years.
The iconic tile-matching title competes with popular creative games competing to become best-selling game of all time; it additionally competes as greatest title ever. Logic titles represent cornerstones within interactive entertainment, while interacting with almost every other genre.
The Solution and Justification
Puzzle games wouldn’t have that issue. You could fill a field of five interesting, varied, worthy titles annually without trouble — or rather, with difficulty, because you’d have to leave so many good games out.
And to reiterate, these represent titles lacking appropriate categories in important events. Brain-teaser creators function at the demanding boundary of video game design, developing some of the purest expressions of gaming itself. Similar to cinema stunt performers, they merit acknowledgment. Don't make them wait 35 years.
