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Each time a prominent prize-giving event approaches, there’s always an outcry for introducing additional classifications to honor unsung work and satisfy the passions of fans with niche passions.

A fellow writer previously argued supporting a scary games classification. That would rule. 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 single-minded supporters, I have a cast-iron argument backing this proposal is the most urgent and important of all. The demand is this: We need an award type for logic-based games.

Categorizing Game Types

Organizing artistic expressions is not a science; it remains highly personal, and inevitably generate discussions and end in fuzzy definitions. It's understandable that film award organizations avoid this approach. However, it represents a necessary evil for the industry of interactive entertainment, that demonstrate such variety they hardly constitute as a single art form.

For comprehensive acknowledgment of achievement in video games to gain proper attention, and to ensure all game types to have a chance for representation, genre categories are essential.

Current Gaming Award Categories

Prominent interactive entertainment events offer these genre categories for Action, Adventure-action titles, Role-Playing, Combat games, Simulation and strategy titles, plus athletic and racing experiences. Collectively, these six categories successfully include a lot of ground, and you can find room for most games within them.

This doesn't apply to brain-teasing titles. No suitable classification appears to accommodate them. Think about these this year’s best games, each quite distinct: building puzzles in a particular game, intense tile-matching from another release, thought-provoking social scenarios in another game. Where could they possibly go between these six categories? Nowhere, that’s where.

The Representation Problem

Many instances occur excellent brain-teasers published annually that have no home in entertainment awards, if they accidentally match classification types such as Mobile Game, VR/AR Game, or the extremely competitive small studio competitions.

• One classic puzzle game wasn’t nominated for anything in 2014
• Another creative title received no nominations during that ceremony
• Popular arranging title got ignored that year
• Limited numbers of logic titles barely qualified for independent or mobile categories

Importance of Logic Titles

These are often 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 an extended period.

The famous puzzle experience competes with popular creative games for the title of most purchased experience; it’s also in the running as greatest title ever. Brain-teasers form essential building blocks within interactive entertainment, while interacting with diverse game types.

Recommendation and Reasoning

Puzzle games wouldn’t have this problem. One could readily select a field of five with fascinating, diverse, deserving games annually without trouble — perhaps, with difficulty, since numerous excellent numerous deserving experiences.

To emphasize again, these are games without proper classification during prominent ceremonies. Puzzle game makers function at the demanding boundary game development, creating some of essential manifestations of the video game form. Just like film action specialists, they warrant appreciation. Let’s not keep them waiting generations.