As any significant prize-giving event approaches, you'll find a demand to include additional classifications to honor unsung work and satisfy the spirits of followers dedicated to specific genres.
My colleague has already made for a horror game category. That would rule. So would board games, representing a passionate advocate's mission. Yet I need to apologize in advance when I prioritize because like all dedicated enthusiasts, I have a cast-iron argument backing this proposal stands as crucial above others. This is the request: There should be an award type for logic-based games.
Organizing Gaming Categories
Categorizing art by genre defies precise measurement; it’s very subjective, and inevitably spark debates and end in fuzzy definitions. This explains why cinema institutions steer clear of genre categories. However, it represents a necessary evil in the world of interactive entertainment, which are so diverse they barely qualify as a single art form.
To recognize the complete range of interactive entertainment excellence to be recognized, while allowing diverse titles to have a chance for representation, genre categories are essential.
Present Award Structure
Prominent interactive entertainment events presently include genre categories for Action, Adventure-action titles, Role-Playing, Fighting, Simulation and strategy titles, and Sports/Racing games. Between them, these award types effectively encompass a lot of ground, making space possible for numerous titles.
This doesn't apply to logic-based experiences. No appropriate category exists for their placement. Consider three of outstanding current releases, each quite distinct: structural challenges from a specific release, the pulse-pounding block-matching in a different title, and the sweetly sociological logic puzzles from additional release. Which classification works within current classifications? Simply put, no category fits.
The Representation Problem
Numerous examples exist excellent brain-teasers launched regularly that have no home during gaming ceremonies, unless they happen to qualify award groups including Mobile Game, Virtual reality experiences, or the intensely contested small studio competitions.
- One classic puzzle game got overlooked in any category during that awards season
- Another creative title missed out during that ceremony
- Well-received sorting experience got ignored recently
- Only a few puzzle games barely qualified for small studio or handheld classifications
Value of Brain-Teasers
Frequently they represent modest productions, but the art of the puzzle game is of massive significance. Iconic mobile puzzle games count as most popular titles in the world maintaining this status for an extended period.
The famous puzzle experience challenges popular creative games for the title of most purchased experience; it also contends for best game of all time. Puzzle games are foundational for gaming as medium, and they are in conversation with diverse game types.
Proposal and Rationale
Logic titles wouldn't face that issue. You could fill multiple candidates with fascinating, diverse, deserving games each ceremony simply — actually, with challenge, because you’d have to leave so many good games out.
Restating the point, these represent titles that otherwise have no home at major gaming awards. Puzzle game makers operate at the demanding boundary game development, producing among the purest expressions of the video game form. Comparable to film action specialists, they merit acknowledgment. We shouldn't delay 35 years.
