Each time a prominent honors show approaches, you'll find a clamor for introducing additional classifications to recognize underappreciated efforts and delight the passions of enthusiasts who have specialized interests.
Another commentator has already made for a horror game category. That would rule. Equally deserving are strategy board titles, representing a dedicated supporter's campaign. But they will have to forgive me when I prioritize because like all dedicated enthusiasts, I possess a compelling case for why my demand remains most pressing and significant. The demand is this: It's essential to create an award type for logic-based games.
The Genre Classification Challenge
Categorizing art by genre defies precise measurement; it remains highly personal, and inevitably generate discussions and end in fuzzy definitions. There’s a reason movie academies avoid this approach. However, it represents an unavoidable compromise within the realm of video games, which are so diverse it's challenging to consider them one unified medium.
To recognize the complete range of interactive entertainment excellence to be recognized, and to ensure all game types to receive proper recognition, genre categories are essential.
Present Award Structure
Leading game ceremonies offer these classifications covering Action-oriented games, Adventure-action titles, RPG experiences, Fighting, Sim/Strategy, and Sports/Racing games. Between them, these classifications actually cover a lot of ground, making space possible for most games within them.
Different situation exists for logic-based experiences. No appropriate category exists to put them. Think about these recent excellent titles, showing diverse approaches: structural challenges from a specific release, the pulse-pounding block-matching from another release, thought-provoking social scenarios in another game. What category would fit them within current classifications? Unfortunately, nowhere.
Acknowledgment Issues
Numerous examples exist outstanding logic titles released every year without proper recognition during gaming ceremonies, if they accidentally match for categories like Handheld titles, VR/AR Game, or the extremely competitive independent game categories.
- A renowned logic title got overlooked in any category in 2014
- Another imaginative release was excluded in 2019
- A beloved organization game was overlooked recently
- Only a few logic titles scraped into small studio or handheld classifications
Importance of Logic Titles
Commonly they're small games, however the design behind logic titles carries substantial weight. Famous handheld logic titles stand as the most-played games globally and have been for over a decade.
The famous puzzle experience competes with famous sandbox experiences claiming status as best-selling game of all time; it’s also in the running as greatest title ever. Logic titles represent cornerstones for gaming as medium, and they are in conversation with diverse game types.
The Solution and Justification
Puzzle games wouldn’t have that issue. One could readily select a field of five engaging, different, qualified experiences each ceremony simply — actually, with challenge, because you’d have to leave many worthy titles.
And to reiterate, these are games that otherwise have no home in important events. Brain-teaser creators operate at the challenging frontier game development, creating some of most fundamental forms of the video game form. Just like movie stunt professionals, they warrant appreciation. Let’s not keep them waiting generations.
