Whenever a significant honors show approaches, you'll find an outcry to include fresh award types to recognize unsung work and delight the hearts of followers dedicated to specific genres.
Another commentator previously argued for a horror game category. It would be amazing. Equally deserving are strategy board titles, which is a dedicated supporter's campaign. But they will have to forgive me when I prioritize since similar to dedicated enthusiasts, I possess a compelling case backing this proposal stands as crucial and significant. This is the request: It's essential to create an award type for logic-based games.
Organizing Gaming Categories
Classifying creative works is not a science; it remains highly personal, and it will always start arguments concluding with vague boundaries. There’s a reason movie academies avoid this approach. But it is an unavoidable compromise for the industry of interactive entertainment, which are so diverse they barely qualify one unified medium.
For the full spectrum of interactive entertainment excellence to be recognized, and to ensure all game types to receive proper recognition, specific award classifications remain vital.
Current Gaming Award Categories
The major gaming awards offer these award types recognizing Action-oriented games, Adventure-action titles, Role-Playing, Fighting, Sim/Strategy, and Sports/Racing games. Together, these six categories effectively encompass a lot of ground, making space possible for most games within them.
Not so for logic-based experiences. No appropriate category exists for their placement. 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, thought-provoking social scenarios from additional release. Where could they possibly go among existing types? Simply put, no category fits.
Recognition Challenges
Numerous examples exist excellent brain-teasers released every year without proper recognition in entertainment awards, except when they manage to fit classification types such as Mobile Game, Virtual reality experiences, and the highly challenging independent game categories.
- One classic puzzle game got overlooked in any category that year
- A different innovative game received no nominations in 2019
- Well-received sorting experience received no acknowledgment recently
- Only a few logic titles scraped into niche award types
Value of Brain-Teasers
Frequently they represent small games, but the art in brain-teasers holds tremendous importance. Famous handheld logic titles stand as most engaged experiences globally continuing this trend for many years.
The famous puzzle experience competes with well-known building titles competing to become highest-selling title ever; it’s also in the running as greatest title ever. Logic titles represent cornerstones within interactive entertainment, while interacting with almost every other genre.
Proposal and Rationale
Brain-teasers wouldn't encounter that issue. It would be easy to populate five nominees interesting, varied, worthy titles annually without trouble — actually, with challenge, because you’d have to leave numerous deserving experiences.
And to reiterate, these are games lacking appropriate categories in important events. Logic title developers operate at the hard edge of video game design, creating some of most fundamental forms within interactive entertainment. Comparable to movie stunt professionals, they warrant appreciation. Don't make them wait decades.
