Whenever a major awards ceremony nears, one notices an outcry for introducing additional classifications to acknowledge underappreciated efforts and satisfy the spirits of fans dedicated to specific genres.
A fellow writer previously argued advocating for terror-themed awards. It would be amazing. The same goes for tabletop games, which is a passionate advocate's mission. Yet I need to apologize in advance if I try to elbow in front just as with other blinkered fanatics, I possess a compelling case for why my demand remains most pressing above others. This is the request: It's essential to create an award type for logic-based games.
Organizing Gaming Categories
Categorizing art by genre is not a science; it remains highly personal, and typically start arguments and end in fuzzy definitions. It's understandable that film award organizations steer clear of genre categories. But it is a necessary evil in the world of interactive entertainment, that demonstrate such variety it's challenging to consider them a single creative category.
For comprehensive acknowledgment of gaming accomplishments to be recognized, while allowing diverse titles to receive proper recognition, genre categories are essential.
Current Gaming Award Categories
The major gaming awards offer these classifications covering Action, Adventure-action titles, Role-Playing, Fighting, Sim/Strategy, and Sports/Racing games. Collectively, these classifications effectively encompass a lot of ground, making space possible for numerous titles.
Different situation exists for brain-teasing titles. No appropriate category exists to accommodate them. Think about these outstanding current releases, all very different: the architectural riddles of one title, fast-paced pattern recognition from another release, engaging interpersonal challenges in another game. What category would fit them between these six categories? Unfortunately, nowhere.
Recognition Challenges
Many instances occur outstanding logic titles published annually that have no home at major award shows, if they accidentally match award groups including Handheld titles, VR/AR Game, and the highly challenging Indie races.
- An iconic brain-teaser got overlooked in any category in 2014
- Another imaginative release missed out during that ceremony
- A beloved organization game received no acknowledgment recently
- Only a few brain-teasers scraped into independent or mobile categories
Value of Brain-Teasers
Frequently they represent compact experiences, but the art behind logic titles holds tremendous importance. Famous handheld logic titles stand as most popular titles in the world and have been for an extended period.
The legendary block-stacking game challenges well-known building titles competing to become highest-selling title ever; it also contends for best game of all time. Puzzle games are foundational for gaming as medium, while interacting across multiple categories.
Recommendation and Reasoning
Puzzle games wouldn’t have such difficulty. You could fill multiple candidates interesting, varied, worthy titles each ceremony simply — or rather, with difficulty, since numerous excellent numerous deserving experiences.
Restating the point, these are games lacking appropriate categories in important events. Brain-teaser creators are working at the hard edge game development, producing among the purest expressions of gaming itself. Similar to movie stunt professionals, they deserve recognition. We shouldn't delay decades.
