As any prominent honors show approaches, there’s always a clamor for the addition of new categories to acknowledge overlooked contributions and delight the passions of followers who have specialized interests.
A fellow writer made the case for a horror game category. That would rule. So would tabletop games, this being a dedicated supporter's campaign. However, I must insist if I try to elbow in front just as with other blinkered fanatics, I have a cast-iron argument for why my demand remains most pressing and significant. This is the request: It's essential to create a classification for brain-teasing titles.
Categorizing Game Types
Organizing artistic expressions is not a science; it’s very subjective, and inevitably spark debates concluding with vague boundaries. This explains why movie academies don’t do it. However, it represents a necessary evil in the world of video games, that demonstrate such variety it's challenging to consider them as a single art form.
To recognize the complete range of interactive entertainment excellence to gain proper attention, and for games of all stripes to have a chance for representation, specific award classifications remain vital.
Current Gaming Award Categories
Leading game ceremonies offer these genre categories for Action, Action/Adventure, RPG experiences, Fighting, Simulation and strategy titles, plus athletic and racing experiences. Together, these classifications successfully include a lot of ground, making space possible for most games within them.
Not so for brain-teasing titles. No suitable classification appears for their placement. Think about these recent excellent titles, all very different: building puzzles of one title, intense tile-matching in a different title, engaging interpersonal challenges from additional release. What category would fit them within current classifications? Simply put, no category fits.
Recognition Challenges
There are dozens of brilliant puzzle games released every year without proper recognition in entertainment awards, if they accidentally match award groups including Handheld titles, Virtual reality experiences, or the intensely contested independent game categories.
- One classic puzzle game got overlooked completely that year
- Another imaginative release missed out that year
- Well-received sorting experience was overlooked that year
- Only a few puzzle games scraped into independent or mobile categories
Importance of Logic Titles
These are often modest productions, however the design behind logic titles is of massive significance. Iconic mobile puzzle games stand as the most-played games in the world continuing this trend for many years.
The legendary block-stacking game rivals famous sandbox experiences claiming status as most purchased experience; it also contends for best game of all time. Logic titles represent cornerstones to the art of video games, and they are in conversation across multiple categories.
Proposal and Rationale
Brain-teasers wouldn't encounter that issue. You could fill a field of five interesting, varied, worthy titles every year with ease — perhaps, with difficulty, because you’d have to leave many worthy titles.
And to reiterate, these represent titles that otherwise have no home at major gaming awards. Puzzle game makers function at the challenging frontier interactive creation, creating some of the purest expressions of the video game form. Comparable to cinema stunt performers, they warrant appreciation. Don't make them wait decades.
