As any prominent awards ceremony nears, there’s always a demand to include fresh award types to honor underappreciated efforts and satisfy the spirits of fans who have specialized interests.
A fellow writer made the case advocating for terror-themed awards. It would be amazing. So would tabletop games, this being someone's personal cause. Yet I need to apologize in advance when I prioritize just as with other dedicated enthusiasts, I have a cast-iron argument backing this proposal stands as crucial and significant. This is the request: There should be an award type for logic-based games.
Organizing Gaming Categories
Classifying creative works isn't exact; it remains highly personal, and inevitably start arguments resulting in unclear classifications. There’s a reason movie academies don’t do it. Yet it remains a necessary evil within the realm of gaming, that demonstrate such variety it's challenging to consider them a single creative category.
To recognize the complete range of interactive entertainment excellence to gain proper attention, and for games of all stripes to receive proper recognition, genre categories are essential.
Existing Game Classification System
Prominent interactive entertainment events offer these award types recognizing Action-oriented games, Action/Adventure, Role-Playing, Fighting, Simulation and strategy titles, and Sports/Racing games. Collectively, these award types successfully include many game types, making space possible accommodating various experiences.
This doesn't apply to puzzle games. No suitable classification appears to put them. Think about these recent excellent titles, each quite distinct: structural challenges of one title, intense tile-matching in a different title, engaging interpersonal challenges of a third title. Which classification works within current classifications? Simply put, no category fits.
Recognition Challenges
There are dozens outstanding logic titles published annually that have no home during gaming ceremonies, if they accidentally match for categories like Handheld titles, VR/AR Game, and the highly challenging Indie races.
- An iconic brain-teaser wasn’t nominated in any category that year
- Another imaginative release was excluded in 2019
- Well-received sorting experience received no acknowledgment that year
- Only a few logic titles managed to sneak into niche award types
Importance of Logic Titles
These are often small games, but the art in brain-teasers holds tremendous importance. Well-known matching games rank among most engaged experiences worldwide continuing this trend for an extended period.
The iconic tile-matching title challenges well-known building titles competing to become best-selling game of all time; it additionally competes for top gaming experience. Brain-teasers form essential building blocks within interactive entertainment, and engaging with almost every other genre.
Proposal and Rationale
Brain-teasers wouldn't encounter this problem. One could readily select multiple candidates with fascinating, diverse, deserving games every year with ease — actually, with challenge, given the need to exclude numerous deserving experiences.
To emphasize again, these are games lacking appropriate categories at major gaming awards. Brain-teaser creators are working at the challenging frontier game development, developing some of essential manifestations of gaming itself. Just like film action specialists, they merit acknowledgment. Don't make them wait decades.
