Whenever a major prize-giving event approaches, there’s always an outcry for the addition of new categories to honor underappreciated efforts and fill the spirits of fans with niche passions.
A fellow writer made the case supporting a scary games classification. It would be amazing. The same goes for tabletop games, this being someone's personal cause. However, I must insist for pushing forward because like all single-minded supporters, I have a cast-iron argument supporting my request stands as crucial and important of all. This is the request: It's essential to create an award type for logic-based games.
Categorizing Game Types
Classifying creative works isn't exact; opinions vary greatly, and it will always start arguments resulting in unclear classifications. It's understandable that cinema institutions avoid this approach. Yet it remains an unavoidable compromise within the realm of video games, showing incredible range they hardly constitute a single creative category.
For comprehensive acknowledgment of achievement in video games to gain proper attention, while allowing diverse titles to have a chance for representation, genre categories are essential.
Existing Game Classification System
Leading game ceremonies offer these genre categories for Action, Adventure-action titles, Role-Playing, Fighting, Simulation and strategy titles, and Sports/Racing games. Between them, these six categories successfully include a lot of ground, and you can find room for most games within them.
Different situation exists for brain-teasing titles. There’s simply nowhere to accommodate them. Consider three of this year’s best games, showing diverse approaches: building puzzles in a particular game, fast-paced pattern recognition of another game, thought-provoking social scenarios in another game. What category would fit them among existing types? Simply put, no category fits.
Acknowledgment Issues
There are dozens excellent brain-teasers published annually that have no home at major award shows, if they accidentally match for categories like Handheld titles, VR/AR Game, or the intensely contested small studio competitions.
- A renowned logic title wasn’t nominated for anything during that awards season
- Another imaginative release was excluded that year
- A beloved organization game got ignored that year
- Limited numbers of brain-teasers managed to sneak into independent or mobile categories
Importance of Logic Titles
Frequently they represent small games, but the art behind logic titles carries substantial weight. Well-known matching games stand as most engaged experiences in the world continuing this trend for over a decade.
The famous puzzle experience competes with well-known building titles claiming status as highest-selling title ever; it additionally competes for best game of all time. Logic titles represent cornerstones within interactive entertainment, and engaging with diverse game types.
The Solution and Justification
Puzzle games wouldn’t have that issue. One could readily select multiple candidates with fascinating, diverse, deserving games every year with ease — perhaps, with difficulty, given the need to exclude numerous deserving experiences.
Restating the point, these represent titles without proper classification in important events. Brain-teaser creators are working at the challenging frontier of video game design, producing among essential manifestations of gaming itself. Just like cinema stunt performers, they warrant appreciation. Don't make them wait generations.
