Each time a major prize-giving event approaches, you'll find a demand to include fresh award types to honor overlooked contributions and delight the passions of enthusiasts dedicated to specific genres.
My colleague made the case for a horror game category. That would rule. Equally deserving are board games, which is a passionate advocate's mission. However, I must insist when I prioritize since similar to dedicated enthusiasts, there's a strong justification supporting my request stands as crucial and important of all. Here's the proposal: We need an award type for logic-based games.
The Genre Classification Challenge
Organizing artistic expressions is not a science; it remains highly personal, and typically generate discussions resulting in unclear classifications. There’s a reason movie academies don’t do it. However, it represents a necessary evil for the industry of video games, showing incredible range it's challenging to consider them as a single art form.
For the full spectrum of interactive entertainment excellence to gain proper attention, while allowing diverse titles to receive proper recognition, specific award classifications remain vital.
Existing Game Classification System
Leading game ceremonies currently feature classifications covering Action, Action/Adventure, RPG experiences, Fighting, Sim/Strategy, plus athletic and racing experiences. Collectively, these award types successfully include a lot of ground, making space possible accommodating various experiences.
This doesn't apply to brain-teasing titles. No suitable classification appears to accommodate them. Think about these recent excellent titles, each quite distinct: building puzzles of one title, fast-paced pattern recognition from another release, thought-provoking social scenarios of a third title. What category would fit them among existing types? Simply put, no category fits.
Acknowledgment Issues
Numerous examples exist outstanding logic titles released every year that have no home at major award shows, except when they manage to fit award groups including Mobile Game, VR/AR Game, or the extremely competitive Indie races.
- A renowned logic title wasn’t nominated completely in 2014
- A different innovative game missed out during that ceremony
- Popular arranging title got ignored recently
- Only a few brain-teasers barely qualified for small studio or handheld classifications
Value of Brain-Teasers
Commonly they're modest productions, but the art of the puzzle game is of massive significance. Iconic mobile puzzle games stand as most popular titles globally continuing this trend for many years.
The legendary block-stacking game competes with famous sandbox experiences for the title of highest-selling title ever; it additionally competes for best game of all time. Logic titles represent cornerstones for gaming as medium, while interacting with diverse game types.
Proposal and Rationale
Brain-teasers wouldn't encounter such difficulty. You could fill multiple candidates engaging, different, qualified experiences each ceremony simply — or rather, with difficulty, because you’d have to leave many worthy titles.
Restating the point, these are games lacking appropriate categories at major gaming awards. Brain-teaser creators function at the hard edge game development, creating some of most fundamental forms within interactive entertainment. Similar to film action specialists, they merit acknowledgment. We shouldn't delay 35 years.
