Each time a prominent prize-giving event draws close, you'll find a demand to include additional classifications to recognize overlooked contributions and delight the passions of followers who have specialized interests.
My colleague has already made for a horror game category. That would rule. The same goes for tabletop games, which is a dedicated supporter's campaign. Yet I need to apologize in advance if I try to elbow in front just as with other dedicated enthusiasts, I have a cast-iron argument backing this proposal remains most pressing above others. Here's the proposal: There should be an award type for logic-based games.
Categorizing Game Types
Classifying creative works isn't exact; it’s very subjective, and inevitably spark debates and end in fuzzy definitions. It's understandable that cinema institutions don’t do it. But it is an essential concession in the world of gaming, that demonstrate such variety they hardly constitute a single creative category.
For comprehensive acknowledgment of gaming accomplishments to gain proper attention, while allowing diverse titles to compete fairly, genre categories are essential.
Present Award Structure
Prominent interactive entertainment events presently include classifications covering Action, Action/Adventure, RPG experiences, Fighting, Sim/Strategy, plus athletic and racing experiences. Together, these classifications effectively encompass numerous genres, and you can find room accommodating various experiences.
This doesn't apply to logic-based experiences. There’s simply nowhere to accommodate them. Consider three of this year’s best games, each quite distinct: building puzzles from a specific release, the pulse-pounding block-matching from another release, engaging interpersonal challenges from additional release. Where could they possibly go among existing types? Simply put, no category fits.
Recognition Challenges
Numerous examples exist excellent brain-teasers launched regularly without proper recognition in entertainment awards, if they accidentally match classification types such as Mobile Game, VR/AR Game, or the extremely competitive Indie races.
- An iconic brain-teaser got overlooked in any category that year
- A different innovative game missed out that year
- Well-received sorting experience got ignored in 2021
- Just some brain-teasers barely qualified for small studio or handheld classifications
Significance of Puzzle Games
Commonly they're small games, yet the craft in brain-teasers holds tremendous importance. Well-known matching games rank among most popular titles worldwide maintaining this status for over a decade.
The iconic tile-matching title rivals popular creative games claiming status as best-selling game of all time; it also contends for best game of all time. Logic titles represent cornerstones for gaming as medium, while interacting with almost every other genre.
The Solution and Justification
Puzzle games wouldn’t have that issue. It would be easy to populate multiple candidates engaging, different, qualified experiences annually without trouble — actually, with challenge, since numerous excellent so many good games out.
To emphasize again, these are games without proper classification in important events. Puzzle game makers are working at the challenging frontier of video game design, developing some of the purest expressions within interactive entertainment. Comparable to cinema stunt performers, they deserve recognition. Let’s not keep them waiting decades.
