As any significant awards ceremony draws close, you'll find a demand for introducing additional classifications to recognize underappreciated efforts and fill the passions of fans with niche passions.
Another commentator previously argued supporting a scary games classification. That would be fantastic. The same goes for strategy board titles, this being a passionate advocate's mission. Yet I need to apologize in advance for pushing forward since similar to blinkered fanatics, there's a strong justification supporting my request stands as crucial and important of all. This is the request: We need an award type for logic-based games.
The Genre Classification Challenge
Classifying creative works defies precise measurement; opinions vary greatly, and inevitably generate discussions resulting in unclear classifications. This explains why film award organizations don’t do it. Yet it remains an essential concession for the industry of interactive entertainment, showing incredible range they hardly constitute a single creative category.
For comprehensive acknowledgment of interactive entertainment excellence to gain proper attention, and to ensure all game types to compete fairly, specific award classifications remain vital.
Existing Game Classification System
The major gaming awards presently include award types recognizing Action-oriented games, Action/Adventure, RPG experiences, Fighting, Sim/Strategy, and Sports/Racing games. Together, these award types successfully include many game types, making space possible for numerous titles.
Different situation exists for logic-based experiences. No appropriate category exists to accommodate them. Consider three of recent excellent titles, all very different: building puzzles in a particular game, intense tile-matching in a different title, engaging interpersonal challenges in another game. What category would fit them within current classifications? Unfortunately, nowhere.
The Representation Problem
Many instances occur of brilliant puzzle games released every year lacking appropriate categories at major award shows, except when they manage to fit for categories like Handheld titles, Virtual reality experiences, and the highly challenging small studio competitions.
- One classic puzzle game got overlooked completely in 2014
- Another creative title missed out during that ceremony
- A beloved organization game was overlooked that year
- Limited numbers of logic titles scraped into small studio or handheld classifications
Significance of Puzzle Games
Commonly they're small games, but the art of the puzzle game is of massive significance. Iconic mobile puzzle games stand as most engaged experiences in the world continuing this trend for many years.
The legendary block-stacking game competes with famous sandbox experiences competing to become best-selling game of all time; it’s also in the running for best game of all time. Brain-teasers form essential building blocks to the art of video games, while interacting across multiple categories.
The Solution and Justification
Logic titles wouldn't face such difficulty. One could readily select multiple candidates with fascinating, diverse, deserving games annually without trouble — actually, with challenge, since numerous excellent so many good games out.
Restating the point, these represent titles that otherwise have no home in important events. Brain-teaser creators are working at the hard edge interactive creation, producing among the purest expressions of gaming itself. Comparable to movie stunt professionals, they warrant appreciation. We shouldn't delay decades.