As any significant awards ceremony approaches, one notices an outcry for the addition fresh award types to acknowledge overlooked contributions and satisfy the spirits of fans dedicated to specific genres.
A fellow writer previously argued supporting a scary games classification. It would be amazing. The same goes for strategy board titles, which is a dedicated supporter's campaign. But they will have to forgive me if I try to elbow in front just as with other dedicated enthusiasts, I possess a compelling case supporting my request remains most pressing and important of all. Here's the proposal: It's essential to create an award type for logic-based games.
Organizing Gaming Categories
Categorizing art by genre is not a science; opinions vary greatly, and typically spark debates and end in fuzzy definitions. It's understandable that cinema institutions avoid this approach. But it is an essential concession for the industry of video games, which are so diverse they barely qualify as a single art form.
To recognize the complete range of gaming accomplishments to receive acknowledgment, and for games of all stripes to receive proper recognition, genre categories are essential.
Existing Game Classification System
The major gaming awards offer these award types recognizing Action, Adventure-action titles, Role-Playing, Combat games, Sim/Strategy, plus athletic and racing experiences. Between them, these six categories successfully include many game types, allowing placement for numerous titles.
Not so for puzzle games. No appropriate category exists to put them. Examine these examples from outstanding current releases, showing diverse approaches: structural challenges from a specific release, the pulse-pounding block-matching from another release, thought-provoking social scenarios from additional release. What category would fit them among existing types? Nowhere, that’s where.
Acknowledgment Issues
There are dozens of brilliant puzzle games launched regularly that have no home in entertainment awards, except when they manage to fit for categories like Mobile Game, VR/AR Game, or the extremely competitive independent game categories.
- One classic puzzle game received no recognition for anything in 2014
- Another imaginative release missed out in 2019
- A beloved organization game got ignored in 2021
- Just some puzzle games managed to sneak into independent or mobile categories
Value of Brain-Teasers
Commonly they're small games, however the design of the puzzle game holds tremendous importance. Well-known matching games stand as the most-played games in the world maintaining this status for an extended period.
The iconic tile-matching title competes with popular creative games claiming status as best-selling game of all time; it also contends as greatest title ever. Logic titles represent cornerstones for gaming as medium, and they are in conversation with almost every other genre.
Recommendation and Reasoning
Logic titles wouldn't face this problem. One could readily select multiple candidates interesting, varied, worthy titles every year with ease — or rather, with difficulty, because you’d have to leave numerous deserving experiences.
To emphasize again, these represent titles that otherwise have no home in important events. Puzzle game makers operate at the hard edge game development, developing some of most fundamental forms within interactive entertainment. Comparable to movie stunt professionals, they warrant appreciation. Let’s not keep them waiting generations.
