Each time a major awards ceremony nears, one notices a demand to include fresh award types to recognize overlooked contributions and satisfy the hearts of fans with niche passions.
My colleague made the case advocating for terror-themed awards. That would rule. Equally deserving are board games, representing someone's personal cause. Yet I need to apologize in advance if I try to elbow in front since similar to dedicated enthusiasts, I have a cast-iron argument backing this proposal is the most urgent and important of all. This is the request: There should be an award type for logic-based games.
Organizing Gaming Categories
Categorizing art by genre isn't exact; opinions vary greatly, and it will always start arguments and end in fuzzy definitions. This explains why movie academies avoid this approach. However, it represents a necessary evil for the industry of video games, showing incredible range they barely qualify a single creative category.
For comprehensive acknowledgment of achievement in video games to be recognized, and for games of all stripes to have a chance for representation, genre categories are essential.
Current Gaming Award Categories
Leading game ceremonies presently include classifications covering Action-oriented games, Adventure-action titles, RPG experiences, Combat games, Simulation and strategy titles, plus athletic and racing experiences. Together, these classifications effectively encompass many game types, and you can find room accommodating various experiences.
Not so for brain-teasing titles. There’s simply nowhere for their placement. Consider three of recent excellent titles, all very different: building puzzles in a particular game, the pulse-pounding block-matching from another release, engaging interpersonal challenges of a third title. What category would fit them between these six categories? Nowhere, that’s where.
The Representation Problem
There are dozens excellent brain-teasers published annually without proper recognition during gaming ceremonies, unless they happen to qualify classification types such as Mobile Game, VR/AR Game, or the intensely contested small studio competitions.
- A renowned logic title received no recognition completely in 2014
- Another imaginative release was excluded that year
- A beloved organization game was overlooked recently
- Only a few brain-teasers scraped into independent or mobile categories
Significance of Puzzle Games
Commonly they're small games, however the design of the puzzle game is of massive significance. Famous handheld logic titles stand as most engaged experiences in the world maintaining this status for over a decade.
The legendary block-stacking game competes with popular creative games competing to become best-selling game of all time; it additionally competes for best game of all time. Brain-teasers form essential building blocks to the art of video games, and engaging with diverse game types.
Proposal and Rationale
Logic titles wouldn't face such difficulty. One could readily select multiple candidates interesting, varied, worthy titles each ceremony simply — actually, with challenge, given the need to exclude many worthy titles.
To emphasize again, these are games that otherwise have no home during prominent ceremonies. Logic title developers operate at the hard edge interactive creation, developing some of the purest expressions within interactive entertainment. Just like cinema stunt performers, they warrant appreciation. Don't make them wait 35 years.
