As any prominent awards ceremony draws close, you'll find a clamor to include fresh award types to acknowledge unsung work and satisfy the passions of followers dedicated to specific genres.
A fellow writer previously argued advocating for terror-themed awards. It would be amazing. The same goes for board games, representing a passionate advocate's mission. However, I must insist for pushing forward because like all dedicated enthusiasts, there's a strong justification backing this proposal is the most urgent and important of all. The demand is this: It's essential to create an award type for logic-based games.
The Genre Classification Challenge
Organizing artistic expressions is not a science; opinions vary greatly, and inevitably spark debates and end in fuzzy definitions. This explains why movie academies don’t do it. But it is an essential concession for the industry of video games, which are so diverse it's challenging to consider them a single creative category.
For comprehensive acknowledgment of achievement in video games to gain proper attention, while allowing diverse titles to receive proper recognition, genre categories are essential.
Existing Game Classification System
The major gaming awards offer these genre categories for Action, Action/Adventure, RPG experiences, Fighting, Simulation and strategy titles, plus athletic and racing experiences. Between them, these six categories effectively encompass a lot of ground, allowing placement for numerous titles.
Not so for logic-based experiences. There’s simply nowhere to accommodate them. Examine these examples from 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 in another game. What category would fit them among existing types? Unfortunately, nowhere.
Recognition Challenges
There are dozens outstanding logic titles released every year that have no home in entertainment awards, except when they manage to fit award groups including Handheld titles, VR/AR Game, or the extremely competitive Indie races.
- One classic puzzle game received no recognition for anything that year
- Another creative title missed out in 2019
- Popular arranging title was overlooked that year
- Only a few puzzle games managed to sneak into independent or mobile categories
Importance of Logic Titles
Commonly they're modest productions, however the design behind logic titles carries substantial weight. Iconic mobile puzzle games rank among most engaged experiences globally continuing this trend for many years.
The legendary block-stacking game challenges famous sandbox experiences claiming status as highest-selling title ever; it additionally competes for best game of all time. Puzzle games are foundational within interactive entertainment, and they are in conversation across multiple categories.
Recommendation and Reasoning
Puzzle games wouldn’t have that issue. It would be easy to populate a field of five interesting, varied, worthy titles every year with ease — actually, with challenge, given the need to exclude numerous deserving experiences.
Restating the point, these include experiences lacking appropriate categories at major gaming awards. Brain-teaser creators function at the challenging frontier of video game design, producing among most fundamental forms of gaming itself. Comparable to cinema stunt performers, they merit acknowledgment. Don't make them wait decades.
