Each time a significant prize-giving event draws close, one notices a clamor for the addition additional classifications to honor underappreciated efforts and fill the passions of enthusiasts dedicated to specific genres.
Another commentator has already made supporting a scary games classification. It would be amazing. So would board games, this being someone's personal cause. But they will have to forgive me when I prioritize since similar to dedicated enthusiasts, I possess a compelling case supporting my request is the most urgent and significant. Here's the proposal: We need an award type for logic-based games.
The Genre Classification Challenge
Categorizing art by genre defies precise measurement; opinions vary greatly, and inevitably spark debates and end in fuzzy definitions. This explains why cinema institutions avoid this approach. But it is an essential concession in the world of gaming, that demonstrate such variety they hardly constitute one unified medium.
For comprehensive acknowledgment of gaming accomplishments to receive acknowledgment, and to ensure all game types to receive proper recognition, genre categories are essential.
Existing Game Classification System
The major gaming awards offer these classifications covering Action, Action/Adventure, Role-Playing, Combat games, Sim/Strategy, and Sports/Racing games. Together, these classifications successfully include many game types, allowing placement for most games within them.
Not so for logic-based experiences. There’s simply nowhere for their placement. Consider three of recent excellent titles, each quite distinct: the architectural riddles from a specific release, fast-paced pattern recognition of another game, engaging interpersonal challenges of a third title. Where could they possibly go among existing types? Nowhere, that’s where.
Recognition Challenges
There are dozens excellent brain-teasers published annually that have no home during gaming ceremonies, except when they manage to fit classification types such as Mobile Game, Virtual reality experiences, or the extremely competitive small studio competitions.
- An iconic brain-teaser received no recognition for anything in 2014
- A different innovative game was excluded that year
- Well-received sorting experience was overlooked that year
- Just some logic titles barely qualified for independent or mobile categories
Importance of Logic Titles
These are often small games, but the art in brain-teasers holds tremendous importance. Iconic mobile puzzle games stand as most engaged experiences globally continuing this trend for many years.
The iconic tile-matching title competes with popular creative games for the title of best-selling game of all time; it additionally competes for top gaming experience. Logic titles represent cornerstones to the art of video games, and they are in conversation with diverse game types.
Proposal and Rationale
Puzzle games wouldn’t have that issue. You could fill a field of five engaging, different, qualified experiences every year with ease — actually, with challenge, given the need to exclude many worthy titles.
To emphasize again, these include experiences that otherwise have no home in important events. Brain-teaser creators function at the challenging frontier game development, developing some of the purest expressions of the video game form. Similar to film action specialists, they deserve recognition. We shouldn't delay 35 years.
