As any significant prize-giving event approaches, there’s always a clamor to include additional classifications to recognize unsung work and delight the hearts of followers who have specialized interests.
My colleague has already made for a horror game category. That would rule. Equally deserving are strategy board titles, which is someone's personal cause. However, I must insist for pushing forward since similar to dedicated enthusiasts, I have a cast-iron argument for why my demand is the most urgent above others. This is the request: There should be an award type for logic-based games.
The Genre Classification Challenge
Organizing artistic expressions is not a science; it remains highly personal, and typically generate discussions resulting in unclear classifications. There’s a reason movie academies avoid this approach. Yet it remains a necessary evil within the realm of gaming, showing incredible range they hardly constitute a single creative category.
To recognize the complete range of interactive entertainment excellence to receive acknowledgment, while allowing diverse titles to compete fairly, genre categories are essential.
Present Award Structure
Leading game ceremonies offer these award types recognizing Action-oriented games, Action/Adventure, RPG experiences, Combat games, Simulation and strategy titles, plus athletic and racing experiences. Together, these award types successfully include many game types, allowing placement for most games within them.
Different situation exists for logic-based experiences. No suitable classification appears to put them. Think about these this year’s best games, each quite distinct: building puzzles in a particular game, the pulse-pounding block-matching of another game, engaging interpersonal challenges of a third title. Where could they possibly go among existing types? Unfortunately, nowhere.
Acknowledgment Issues
Many instances occur outstanding logic titles published annually without proper recognition at major award shows, unless they happen to qualify classification types such as Mobile Game, VR/AR Game, or the intensely contested Indie races.
- An iconic brain-teaser got overlooked completely in 2014
- Another creative title was excluded during that ceremony
- Well-received sorting experience got ignored that year
- Just some logic titles barely qualified for independent or mobile categories
Significance of Puzzle Games
Frequently they represent small games, yet the craft behind logic titles is of massive significance. Famous handheld logic titles rank among most engaged experiences worldwide maintaining this status for over a decade.
The famous puzzle experience rivals well-known building titles for the title of highest-selling title ever; it additionally competes as greatest title ever. Logic titles represent cornerstones within interactive entertainment, and engaging with diverse game types.
Proposal and Rationale
Brain-teasers wouldn't encounter this problem. One could readily select a field of five engaging, different, qualified experiences annually without trouble — perhaps, with difficulty, given the need to exclude numerous deserving experiences.
To emphasize again, these represent titles without proper classification in important events. Brain-teaser creators are working at the challenging frontier interactive creation, producing among most fundamental forms of gaming itself. Similar to movie stunt professionals, they deserve recognition. Don't make them wait 35 years.
