Each time a major honors show draws close, one notices a demand for the addition of new categories to honor unsung work and satisfy the passions of fans dedicated to specific genres.
My colleague made the case advocating for terror-themed awards. That would be fantastic. Equally deserving are strategy board titles, this being someone's personal cause. However, I must insist if I try to elbow in front because like all dedicated enthusiasts, there's a strong justification for why my demand is the most urgent and significant. Here's the proposal: We need an award type for logic-based games.
Categorizing Game Types
Classifying creative works defies precise measurement; it remains highly personal, and inevitably generate discussions concluding with vague boundaries. This explains why movie academies avoid this approach. Yet it remains a necessary evil for the industry of interactive entertainment, that demonstrate such variety they barely qualify a single creative category.
For comprehensive acknowledgment of interactive entertainment excellence to gain proper attention, and to ensure all game types to compete fairly, classification by type becomes crucial.
Current Gaming Award Categories
Leading game ceremonies presently include genre categories for Action-oriented games, Adventure-action titles, RPG experiences, Combat games, Sim/Strategy, and Sports/Racing games. Together, these classifications actually cover a lot of ground, and you can find room accommodating various experiences.
Different situation exists for logic-based experiences. No appropriate category exists for their placement. Think about these outstanding current releases, each quite distinct: the architectural riddles from a specific release, fast-paced pattern recognition from another release, and the sweetly sociological logic puzzles from additional release. What category would fit them 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 Mobile Game, VR/AR Game, or the extremely competitive Indie races.
- A renowned logic title received no recognition in any category that year
- A different innovative game missed out in 2019
- Popular arranging title was overlooked recently
- Only a few logic titles barely qualified for small studio or handheld classifications
Significance of Puzzle Games
These are often compact experiences, yet the craft of the puzzle game carries substantial weight. Famous handheld logic titles stand as most popular titles in the world maintaining this status for over a decade.
The legendary block-stacking game rivals well-known building titles competing to become highest-selling title ever; it additionally competes for top gaming experience. Brain-teasers form essential building blocks for gaming as medium, and they are in conversation with almost every other genre.
The Solution and Justification
Logic titles wouldn't face this problem. It would be easy to populate five nominees engaging, different, qualified experiences annually without trouble — actually, with challenge, given the need to exclude numerous deserving experiences.
To emphasize again, these represent titles without proper classification during prominent ceremonies. Puzzle game makers are working at the demanding boundary game development, producing among most fundamental forms of gaming itself. Just like cinema stunt performers, they deserve recognition. Let’s not keep them waiting decades.
