Whenever a major honors show draws close, you'll find a clamor for the addition of new categories to recognize unsung work and fill the spirits of followers with niche passions.
Another commentator previously argued for a horror game category. It would be amazing. The same goes for board games, representing a passionate advocate's mission. But they will have to forgive me if I try to elbow in front since similar to blinkered fanatics, I possess a compelling case backing this proposal stands as crucial above others. The demand is this: There should be an award type for logic-based games.
Organizing Gaming Categories
Organizing artistic expressions isn't exact; it remains highly personal, and it will always generate discussions concluding with vague boundaries. It's understandable that cinema institutions don’t do it. Yet it remains an unavoidable compromise within the realm of video games, which are so diverse it's challenging to consider them a single creative category.
To recognize the complete range of interactive entertainment excellence to gain proper attention, and to ensure all game types to have a chance for representation, classification by type becomes crucial.
Existing Game Classification System
Prominent interactive entertainment events presently include genre categories for Action, Adventure-action titles, Role-Playing, Fighting, Sim/Strategy, plus athletic and racing experiences. Together, these award types effectively encompass numerous genres, making space possible accommodating various experiences.
Not so for brain-teasing titles. No appropriate category exists for their placement. Think about these outstanding current releases, all very different: structural challenges in a particular game, the pulse-pounding block-matching from another release, and the sweetly sociological logic puzzles of a third title. Which classification works among existing types? Unfortunately, nowhere.
The Representation Problem
Many instances occur of brilliant puzzle games launched regularly lacking appropriate categories at major award shows, except when they manage to fit award groups including Handheld titles, Virtual reality experiences, and the highly challenging independent game categories.
- One classic puzzle game wasn’t nominated in any category that year
- A different innovative game received no nominations in 2019
- Well-received sorting experience received no acknowledgment that year
- Only a few puzzle games scraped into niche award types
Value of Brain-Teasers
Frequently they represent compact experiences, but the art in brain-teasers is of massive significance. Iconic mobile puzzle games count as most engaged experiences worldwide continuing this trend for many years.
The legendary block-stacking game challenges well-known building titles claiming status as most purchased experience; it additionally competes as greatest title ever. Logic titles represent cornerstones for gaming as medium, and engaging across multiple categories.
Proposal and Rationale
Logic titles wouldn't face such difficulty. You could fill five nominees engaging, different, qualified experiences each ceremony simply — perhaps, with difficulty, given the need to exclude so many good games out.
Restating the point, these include experiences lacking appropriate categories during prominent ceremonies. Logic title developers operate at the demanding boundary interactive creation, developing some of the purest expressions of the video game form. Similar to cinema stunt performers, they warrant appreciation. Don't make them wait decades.
