Each time a significant prize-giving event nears, one notices a demand to include fresh award types to recognize unsung work and satisfy the passions of followers with niche passions.
A fellow writer made the case supporting a scary games classification. It would be amazing. So would strategy board titles, which is someone's personal cause. But they will have to forgive me for pushing forward since similar to dedicated enthusiasts, I possess a compelling case supporting my request is the most urgent and significant. This is the request: We need an award type for logic-based games.
Organizing Gaming Categories
Classifying creative works defies precise measurement; it’s very subjective, and inevitably start arguments and end in fuzzy definitions. This explains why movie academies don’t do it. However, it represents an unavoidable compromise in the world of video games, that demonstrate such variety they barely qualify as a single art form.
To recognize the complete range of interactive entertainment excellence to be recognized, and to ensure all game types to compete fairly, genre categories are essential.
Current Gaming Award Categories
The major gaming awards currently feature award types recognizing Action, Action/Adventure, RPG experiences, Fighting, Simulation and strategy titles, plus athletic and racing experiences. Collectively, these six categories successfully include numerous genres, and you can find room accommodating various experiences.
This doesn't apply to logic-based experiences. There’s simply nowhere to accommodate them. Consider three of this year’s best games, showing diverse approaches: the architectural riddles from a specific release, the pulse-pounding block-matching from another release, engaging interpersonal challenges in another game. Which classification works among existing types? Nowhere, that’s where.
Recognition Challenges
There are dozens excellent brain-teasers published annually without proper recognition in entertainment awards, unless they happen to qualify classification types such as Mobile Game, VR/AR Game, and the highly challenging independent game categories.
- One classic puzzle game got overlooked in any category in 2014
- A different innovative game received no nominations that year
- A beloved organization game got ignored that year
- Only a few brain-teasers managed to sneak into small studio or handheld classifications
Significance of Puzzle Games
Commonly they're compact experiences, but the art of the puzzle game holds tremendous importance. Iconic mobile puzzle games rank among the most-played games in the world and have been for an extended period.
The legendary block-stacking game competes with popular creative games claiming status as most purchased experience; it also contends for best game of all time. Brain-teasers form essential building blocks for gaming as medium, and engaging across multiple categories.
Proposal and Rationale
Logic titles wouldn't face that issue. It would be easy to populate five nominees with fascinating, diverse, deserving games each ceremony simply — or rather, with difficulty, because you’d have to leave so many good games out.
Restating the point, these are games lacking appropriate categories in important events. Brain-teaser creators are working at the demanding boundary of video game design, developing some of essential manifestations within interactive entertainment. Comparable to film action specialists, they warrant appreciation. Let’s not keep them waiting 35 years.
