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Each time a prominent awards ceremony draws close, you'll find a demand to include additional classifications to acknowledge overlooked contributions and delight the spirits of fans dedicated to specific genres.

My colleague has already made supporting a scary games classification. That would rule. The same goes for board games, which is a dedicated supporter's campaign. However, I must insist when I prioritize just as with other blinkered fanatics, there's a strong justification supporting my request remains most pressing above others. This is the request: We need an award type for logic-based games.

Categorizing Game Types

Classifying creative works isn't exact; it’s very subjective, and inevitably generate discussions and end in fuzzy definitions. This explains why movie academies avoid this approach. But it is a necessary evil for the industry of interactive entertainment, which are so diverse it's challenging to consider them one unified medium.

For the full spectrum of achievement in video games to gain proper attention, and to ensure all game types to receive proper recognition, genre categories are essential.

Current Gaming Award Categories

Leading game ceremonies offer these classifications covering Action-oriented games, Action/Adventure, Role-Playing, Fighting, Simulation and strategy titles, and Sports/Racing games. Between them, these award types actually cover many game types, allowing placement for numerous titles.

Different situation exists for logic-based experiences. No suitable classification appears to put them. Think about these outstanding current releases, each quite distinct: structural challenges in a particular game, intense tile-matching in a different title, thought-provoking social scenarios of a third title. Which classification works within current classifications? Nowhere, that’s where.

The Representation Problem

Many instances occur outstanding logic titles published annually without proper recognition at major award shows, unless they happen to qualify classification types such as Mobile Game, VR/AR Game, or the intensely contested Indie races.

• A renowned logic title got overlooked for anything during that awards season
• A different innovative game received no nominations in 2019
• Well-received sorting experience was overlooked recently
• Just some puzzle games managed to sneak into small studio or handheld classifications

Value of Brain-Teasers

Commonly they're small games, however the design behind logic titles carries substantial weight. Well-known matching games stand as most popular titles in the world maintaining this status for over a decade.

The famous puzzle experience rivals popular creative games claiming status as best-selling game of all time; it additionally competes for top gaming experience. Brain-teasers form essential building blocks for gaming as medium, and engaging across multiple categories.

Proposal and Rationale

Logic titles wouldn't face this problem. It would be easy to populate five nominees interesting, varied, worthy titles annually without trouble — or rather, with difficulty, since numerous excellent many worthy titles.

To emphasize again, these include experiences that otherwise have no home in important events. Puzzle game makers are working at the hard edge of video game design, producing among most fundamental forms of the video game form. Just like cinema stunt performers, they warrant appreciation. Let’s not keep them waiting decades.