As any significant awards ceremony nears, one notices a clamor for the addition of new categories to honor underappreciated efforts and fill the passions of followers dedicated to specific genres.
My colleague has already made for a horror game category. That would be fantastic. Equally deserving are board games, this being a dedicated supporter's campaign. Yet I need to apologize in advance if I try to elbow in front because like all dedicated enthusiasts, I have a cast-iron argument backing this proposal remains most pressing and significant. Here's the proposal: It's essential to create an award type for logic-based games.
Categorizing Game Types
Organizing artistic expressions isn't exact; it remains highly personal, and typically generate discussions and end in fuzzy definitions. This explains why cinema institutions avoid this approach. But it is an essential concession in the world of gaming, which are so diverse they barely qualify one unified medium.
For the full spectrum of achievement in video games to be recognized, and to ensure all game types to compete fairly, genre categories are essential.
Current Gaming Award Categories
Leading game ceremonies currently feature award types recognizing Action-oriented games, Adventure-action titles, RPG experiences, Combat games, Sim/Strategy, plus athletic and racing experiences. Collectively, these six categories actually cover a lot of ground, making space possible for most games within them.
Different situation exists for brain-teasing titles. No appropriate category exists for their placement. Think about these this year’s best games, showing diverse approaches: building puzzles from a specific release, the pulse-pounding block-matching of another game, thought-provoking social scenarios of a third title. Where could they possibly go within current classifications? Unfortunately, nowhere.
Recognition Challenges
Numerous examples exist of brilliant puzzle games launched regularly lacking appropriate categories in entertainment awards, except when they manage to fit for categories like Handheld titles, Virtual reality experiences, or the extremely competitive independent game categories.
- An iconic brain-teaser received no recognition for anything in 2014
- Another creative title missed out that year
- A beloved organization game got ignored recently
- Just some logic titles barely qualified for niche award types
Importance of Logic Titles
These are often compact experiences, however the design behind logic titles is of massive significance. Famous handheld logic titles stand as the most-played games globally continuing this trend for over a decade.
The legendary block-stacking game rivals well-known building titles competing to become most purchased experience; it additionally competes for top gaming experience. Puzzle games are foundational within interactive entertainment, while interacting with diverse game types.
Recommendation and Reasoning
Logic titles wouldn't face that issue. One could readily select a field of five interesting, varied, worthy titles each ceremony simply — perhaps, with difficulty, because you’d have to leave so many good games out.
To emphasize again, these include experiences without proper classification in important events. Puzzle game makers function at the challenging frontier of video game design, creating some of the purest expressions of the video game form. Just like film action specialists, they deserve recognition. We shouldn't delay decades.
