Whenever a prominent awards ceremony approaches, you'll find a clamor for the addition fresh award types to honor unsung work and delight the spirits of enthusiasts with niche passions.
Another commentator has already made for a horror game category. That would rule. The same goes for tabletop games, this being a dedicated supporter's campaign. However, I must insist if I try to elbow in front since similar to blinkered fanatics, I possess a compelling case backing this proposal remains most pressing and important of all. This is the request: We need an award type for logic-based games.
Categorizing Game Types
Organizing artistic expressions is not a science; it remains highly personal, and inevitably generate discussions resulting in unclear classifications. This explains why movie academies steer clear of genre categories. But it is an unavoidable compromise within the realm of video games, that demonstrate such variety it's challenging to consider them as a single art form.
For comprehensive acknowledgment of interactive entertainment excellence to gain proper attention, and to ensure all game types to compete fairly, genre categories are essential.
Existing Game Classification System
Prominent interactive entertainment events presently include award types recognizing Action, Adventure-action titles, Role-Playing, Combat games, Sim/Strategy, and Sports/Racing games. Collectively, these award types actually cover numerous genres, allowing placement accommodating various experiences.
Different situation exists for puzzle games. No appropriate category exists for their placement. Consider three of recent excellent titles, showing diverse approaches: building puzzles in a particular game, intense tile-matching of another game, thought-provoking social scenarios in another game. Where could they possibly go between these six categories? Nowhere, that’s where.
Acknowledgment Issues
Numerous examples exist excellent brain-teasers released every year lacking appropriate categories during gaming ceremonies, except when they manage to fit for categories like Mobile Game, VR/AR Game, or the extremely competitive independent game categories.
- A renowned logic title received no recognition completely in 2014
- A different innovative game was excluded that year
- Popular arranging title was overlooked recently
- Limited numbers of brain-teasers managed to sneak into small studio or handheld classifications
Significance of Puzzle Games
These are often modest productions, but the art in brain-teasers carries substantial weight. Well-known matching games stand as most engaged experiences globally maintaining this status for over a decade.
The iconic tile-matching title challenges popular creative games for the title of highest-selling title ever; it additionally competes for best game of all time. Puzzle games are foundational for gaming as medium, while interacting across multiple categories.
Proposal and Rationale
Puzzle games wouldn’t have this problem. You could fill multiple candidates with fascinating, diverse, deserving games each ceremony simply — or rather, with difficulty, given the need to exclude numerous deserving experiences.
And to reiterate, these represent titles lacking appropriate categories in important events. Logic title developers operate at the hard edge of video game design, developing some of most fundamental forms of gaming itself. Just like movie stunt professionals, they deserve recognition. Let’s not keep them waiting 35 years.