Each time a significant awards ceremony draws close, one notices a demand for introducing fresh award types to acknowledge overlooked contributions and fill the spirits of followers who have specialized interests.
My colleague made the case supporting a scary games classification. That would rule. The same goes for board games, which is a passionate advocate's mission. But they will have to forgive me if I try to elbow in front because like all single-minded supporters, I possess a compelling case supporting my request stands as crucial and significant. This is the request: We need an award type for logic-based games.
Categorizing Game Types
Classifying creative works isn't exact; it remains highly personal, and inevitably spark debates concluding with vague boundaries. It's understandable that cinema institutions avoid this approach. Yet it remains an unavoidable compromise within the realm of video games, which are so diverse they hardly constitute a single creative category.
To recognize the complete range of achievement in video games to be recognized, while allowing diverse titles to receive proper recognition, specific award classifications remain vital.
Present Award Structure
The major gaming awards currently feature classifications covering Action, Action/Adventure, RPG experiences, Combat games, Sim/Strategy, plus athletic and racing experiences. Between them, these six categories actually cover many game types, allowing placement accommodating various experiences.
Different situation exists for brain-teasing titles. No appropriate category exists to accommodate them. Examine these examples from this year’s best games, each quite distinct: the architectural riddles in a particular game, fast-paced pattern recognition of another game, engaging interpersonal challenges in another game. Where could they possibly go among existing types? Nowhere, that’s where.
The Representation Problem
Numerous examples exist outstanding logic titles released every year that have no home in entertainment awards, unless they happen to qualify for categories like Handheld titles, VR/AR Game, and the highly challenging independent game categories.
- An iconic brain-teaser wasn’t nominated for anything that year
- Another creative title received no nominations that year
- Well-received sorting experience got ignored recently
- Only a few brain-teasers barely qualified for niche award types
Importance of Logic Titles
Commonly they're modest productions, however the design of the puzzle game is of massive significance. Famous handheld logic titles stand as the most-played games globally and have been for an extended period.
The famous puzzle experience rivals popular creative games for the title of most purchased experience; it’s also in the running as greatest title ever. Puzzle games are foundational for gaming as medium, and they are in conversation with almost every other genre.
Proposal and Rationale
Puzzle games wouldn’t have this problem. You could fill a field of five engaging, different, qualified experiences every year with ease — actually, with challenge, because you’d have to leave numerous deserving experiences.
Restating the point, these include experiences that otherwise have no home at major gaming awards. Puzzle game makers are working at the hard edge interactive creation, developing some of essential manifestations of the video game form. Comparable to cinema stunt performers, they merit acknowledgment. We shouldn't delay generations.
