As any significant awards ceremony nears, you'll find a demand to include fresh award types to recognize unsung work and delight the spirits of fans dedicated to specific genres.
Another commentator previously argued for a horror game category. That would rule. Equally deserving are strategy board titles, representing a passionate advocate's mission. Yet I need to apologize in advance when I prioritize since similar to blinkered fanatics, I have a cast-iron argument supporting my request is the most urgent and important of all. This is the request: We need an award type for logic-based games.
Organizing Gaming Categories
Organizing artistic expressions isn't exact; opinions vary greatly, and it will always spark debates concluding with vague boundaries. There’s a reason movie academies avoid this approach. Yet it remains a necessary evil in the world of gaming, which are so diverse they barely qualify as a single art form.
For comprehensive acknowledgment of gaming accomplishments to gain proper attention, while allowing diverse titles to have a chance for representation, genre categories are essential.
Current Gaming Award Categories
Prominent interactive entertainment events currently feature genre categories for Action, Action/Adventure, RPG experiences, Fighting, Simulation and strategy titles, plus athletic and racing experiences. Between them, these six categories actually cover a lot of ground, allowing placement accommodating various experiences.
Different situation exists for puzzle games. There’s simply nowhere for their placement. Think about these this year’s best games, each quite distinct: building puzzles of one title, the pulse-pounding block-matching of another game, and the sweetly sociological logic puzzles of a third title. Where could they possibly go between these six categories? Simply put, no category fits.
Acknowledgment Issues
There are dozens excellent brain-teasers published annually without proper recognition in entertainment awards, unless they happen to qualify award groups including Handheld titles, VR/AR Game, or the intensely contested small studio competitions.
- One classic puzzle game received no recognition for anything that year
- Another creative title missed out during that ceremony
- Well-received sorting experience got ignored recently
- Just some logic titles scraped into small studio or handheld classifications
Importance of Logic Titles
Commonly they're modest productions, yet the craft in brain-teasers holds tremendous importance. Famous handheld logic titles rank among most popular titles in the world maintaining this status for an extended period.
The iconic tile-matching title rivals famous sandbox experiences for the title of most purchased experience; it’s also in the running for top gaming experience. Brain-teasers form essential building blocks for gaming as medium, and engaging across multiple categories.
Proposal and Rationale
Logic titles wouldn't face this problem. One could readily select multiple candidates with fascinating, diverse, deserving games every year with ease — or rather, with difficulty, given the need to exclude many worthy titles.
Restating the point, these are games without proper classification in important events. Brain-teaser creators function at the demanding boundary interactive creation, producing among essential manifestations of the video game form. Comparable to cinema stunt performers, they deserve recognition. Don't make them wait generations.
