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Whenever a major awards ceremony draws close, there’s always a clamor to include fresh award types to recognize overlooked contributions and delight the passions of fans who have specialized interests.

Another commentator previously argued supporting a scary games classification. That would be fantastic. So would tabletop games, which is a dedicated supporter's campaign. However, I must insist when I prioritize since similar to single-minded supporters, 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.

Categorizing Game Types

Classifying creative works isn't exact; it’s very subjective, and it will always start arguments concluding with vague boundaries. This explains why movie academies steer clear of genre categories. Yet it remains an essential concession for the industry of interactive entertainment, that demonstrate such variety they barely qualify a single creative category.

To recognize the complete range of achievement in video games to gain proper attention, while allowing diverse titles to receive proper recognition, genre categories are essential.

Existing Game Classification System

The major gaming awards offer these genre categories for Action-oriented games, Adventure-action titles, RPG experiences, Fighting, Sim/Strategy, plus athletic and racing experiences. Between them, these classifications effectively encompass numerous genres, making space possible for most games within them.

Not so for puzzle games. No appropriate category exists to accommodate them. Think about these recent excellent titles, each quite distinct: building puzzles in a particular game, fast-paced pattern recognition from another release, engaging interpersonal challenges in another game. Where could they possibly go between these six categories? Nowhere, that’s where.

Recognition Challenges

Numerous examples exist excellent brain-teasers released every year without proper recognition during gaming ceremonies, unless they happen to qualify classification types such as Handheld titles, Virtual reality experiences, or the extremely competitive Indie races.

• An iconic brain-teaser wasn’t nominated in any category during that awards season
• Another imaginative release was excluded in 2019
• A beloved organization game was overlooked recently
• Limited numbers of puzzle games managed to sneak into small studio or handheld classifications

Importance of Logic Titles

Frequently they represent modest productions, yet the craft behind logic titles holds tremendous importance. Iconic mobile puzzle games stand as the most-played games in the world continuing this trend for over a decade.

The legendary block-stacking game rivals well-known building titles claiming status as best-selling game of all time; it’s also in the running as greatest title ever. Brain-teasers form essential building blocks for gaming as medium, and engaging with almost every other genre.

Proposal and Rationale

Logic titles wouldn't face this problem. It would be easy to populate multiple candidates engaging, different, qualified experiences each ceremony simply — perhaps, with difficulty, because you’d have to leave many worthy titles.

Restating the point, these include experiences lacking appropriate categories in important events. Puzzle game makers are working at the demanding boundary of video game design, creating some of essential manifestations of gaming itself. Similar to cinema stunt performers, they deserve recognition. Let’s not keep them waiting decades.