Whenever a prominent awards ceremony nears, one notices a demand to include additional classifications to acknowledge overlooked contributions and satisfy the hearts of enthusiasts with niche passions.
Another commentator has already made advocating for terror-themed awards. That would rule. The same goes for strategy board titles, this being someone's personal cause. But they will have to forgive me if I try to elbow in front because like all blinkered fanatics, there's a strong justification supporting my request remains most pressing and important of all. This is the request: It's essential to create an award type for logic-based games.
Organizing Gaming Categories
Classifying creative works isn't exact; it’s very subjective, and inevitably start arguments resulting in unclear classifications. This explains why cinema institutions steer clear of genre categories. But it is an essential concession in the world of video games, that demonstrate such variety they barely qualify as a single art form.
For the full spectrum of achievement in video games to gain proper attention, and to ensure all game types to receive proper recognition, specific award classifications remain vital.
Existing Game Classification System
Leading game ceremonies offer these classifications covering Action, Adventure-action titles, Role-Playing, Fighting, Simulation and strategy titles, plus athletic and racing experiences. Between them, these classifications successfully include a lot of ground, and you can find room accommodating various experiences.
Different situation exists for logic-based experiences. No appropriate category exists to accommodate them. Examine these examples from this year’s best games, all very different: structural challenges from a specific release, fast-paced pattern recognition of another game, and the sweetly sociological logic puzzles of a third title. Which classification works among existing types? Simply put, no category fits.
Recognition Challenges
There are dozens outstanding logic titles launched regularly without proper recognition during gaming ceremonies, except when they manage to fit classification types such as Handheld titles, VR/AR Game, or the intensely contested small studio competitions.
- A renowned logic title received no recognition completely in 2014
- Another creative title missed out in 2019
- Well-received sorting experience was overlooked in 2021
- Limited numbers of brain-teasers barely qualified for small studio or handheld classifications
Importance of Logic Titles
Frequently they represent compact experiences, but the art behind logic titles holds tremendous importance. Iconic mobile puzzle games rank among the most-played games globally maintaining this status for an extended period.
The iconic tile-matching title challenges popular creative games for the title of best-selling game of all time; it also contends for top gaming experience. Puzzle games are foundational to the art of video games, and engaging with diverse game types.
The Solution and Justification
Brain-teasers wouldn't encounter such difficulty. It would be easy to populate a field of five interesting, varied, worthy titles every year with ease — perhaps, with difficulty, since numerous excellent so many good games out.
Restating the point, these include experiences without proper classification during prominent ceremonies. Puzzle game makers function at the hard edge game development, creating some of most fundamental forms of the video game form. Similar to film action specialists, they deserve recognition. Let’s not keep them waiting 35 years.
