Whenever a major prize-giving event nears, you'll find a clamor to include additional classifications to acknowledge underappreciated efforts and delight the spirits of enthusiasts dedicated to specific genres.
My colleague has already made advocating for terror-themed awards. That would be fantastic. Equally deserving are board games, which is a dedicated supporter's campaign. But they will have to forgive me if I try to elbow in front since similar to single-minded supporters, there's a strong justification backing this proposal remains most pressing above others. Here's the proposal: It's essential to create an award type for logic-based games.
Categorizing Game Types
Organizing artistic expressions defies precise measurement; opinions vary greatly, and inevitably start arguments and end in fuzzy definitions. There’s a reason movie academies steer clear of genre categories. Yet it remains an essential concession for the industry of video games, showing incredible range it's challenging to consider them one unified medium.
For the full spectrum of achievement in video games to be recognized, and for games of all stripes to receive proper recognition, classification by type becomes crucial.
Existing Game Classification System
Leading game ceremonies currently feature genre categories for Action, Adventure-action titles, Role-Playing, Fighting, Simulation and strategy titles, and Sports/Racing games. Together, these classifications successfully include numerous genres, and you can find room for numerous titles.
Different situation exists for puzzle games. No appropriate category exists to put them. Examine these examples from recent excellent titles, all very different: building puzzles of one title, intense tile-matching in a different title, engaging interpersonal challenges in another game. Which classification works within current classifications? Unfortunately, nowhere.
Recognition Challenges
There are dozens excellent brain-teasers published annually lacking appropriate categories at major award shows, if they accidentally match classification types such as Mobile Game, VR/AR Game, or the extremely competitive Indie races.
- One classic puzzle game wasn’t nominated completely during that awards season
- Another imaginative release was excluded that year
- Popular arranging title got ignored that year
- Limited numbers of puzzle games barely qualified for independent or mobile categories
Value of Brain-Teasers
These are often compact experiences, however the design in brain-teasers carries substantial weight. Iconic mobile puzzle games rank among the most-played games in the world continuing this trend for many years.
The iconic tile-matching title rivals popular creative games for the title of highest-selling title ever; it additionally competes as greatest title ever. Brain-teasers form essential building blocks within interactive entertainment, and they are in conversation with diverse game types.
Recommendation and Reasoning
Logic titles wouldn't face such difficulty. It would be easy to populate a field of five interesting, varied, worthy titles each ceremony simply — actually, with challenge, since numerous excellent many worthy titles.
And to reiterate, these include experiences that otherwise have no home at major gaming awards. Logic title developers function at the demanding boundary interactive creation, creating some of most fundamental forms within interactive entertainment. Similar to cinema stunt performers, they deserve recognition. Let’s not keep them waiting 35 years.
