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Each time a prominent prize-giving event draws close, you'll find a demand to include fresh award types to honor underappreciated efforts and fill the passions of enthusiasts with niche passions.

Another commentator has already made advocating for terror-themed awards. That would rule. Equally deserving are tabletop games, which is a passionate advocate's mission. However, I must insist when I prioritize just as with other blinkered fanatics, there's a strong justification for why my demand remains most pressing and important of all. This is the request: It's essential to create an award type for logic-based games.

The Genre Classification Challenge

Categorizing art by genre isn't exact; opinions vary greatly, and it will always generate discussions concluding with vague boundaries. There’s a reason cinema institutions avoid this approach. But it is a necessary evil for the industry of interactive entertainment, that demonstrate such variety it's challenging to consider them a single creative category.

To recognize the complete range of gaming accomplishments to receive acknowledgment, while allowing diverse titles to have a chance for representation, genre categories are essential.

Existing Game Classification System

The major gaming awards offer these genre categories for Action-oriented games, Action/Adventure, Role-Playing, Fighting, Simulation and strategy titles, and Sports/Racing games. Together, these award types successfully include a lot of ground, allowing placement accommodating various experiences.

This doesn't apply to puzzle games. No appropriate category exists to put them. Examine these examples from this year’s best games, each quite distinct: building puzzles from a specific release, the pulse-pounding block-matching of another game, and the sweetly sociological logic puzzles of a third title. Where could they possibly go between these six categories? Simply put, no category fits.

The Representation Problem

There are dozens of brilliant puzzle games launched regularly lacking appropriate categories in entertainment awards, except when they manage to fit classification types such as Mobile Game, VR/AR Game, or the intensely contested Indie races.

• An iconic brain-teaser wasn’t nominated in any category during that awards season
• Another imaginative release missed out that year
• Well-received sorting experience was overlooked recently
• Limited numbers of brain-teasers barely qualified for independent or mobile categories

Importance of Logic Titles

Commonly they're modest productions, however the design behind logic titles holds tremendous importance. Well-known matching games count as the most-played games globally continuing this trend for an extended period.

The legendary block-stacking game rivals famous sandbox experiences for the title of best-selling game of all time; it also contends for best game of all time. Logic titles represent cornerstones for gaming as medium, and they are in conversation across multiple categories.

Recommendation and Reasoning

Logic titles wouldn't face such difficulty. It would be easy to populate five nominees engaging, different, qualified experiences annually without trouble — perhaps, with difficulty, given the need to exclude many worthy titles.

And to reiterate, these represent titles without proper classification at major gaming awards. Logic title developers are working at the hard edge of video game design, producing among essential manifestations within interactive entertainment. Similar to film action specialists, they warrant appreciation. Let’s not keep them waiting generations.