Each time a significant prize-giving event nears, one notices a demand for introducing fresh award types to recognize underappreciated efforts and satisfy the passions of followers with niche passions.
Another commentator previously argued for a horror game category. That would be fantastic. Equally deserving are strategy board titles, representing someone's personal cause. But they will have to forgive me when I prioritize since similar to single-minded supporters, I have a cast-iron argument for why my demand stands as crucial and significant. The demand is this: It's essential to create a category for puzzle games.
Categorizing Game Types
Categorizing art by genre isn't exact; opinions vary greatly, and inevitably start arguments concluding with vague boundaries. There’s a reason film award organizations don’t do it. Yet it remains an unavoidable compromise in the world of video games, that demonstrate such variety they barely qualify as a single art form.
To recognize the complete range of interactive entertainment excellence to gain proper attention, while allowing diverse titles to have a chance for representation, specific award classifications remain vital.
Existing Game Classification System
Prominent interactive entertainment events presently include genre categories for Action, Action/Adventure, RPG experiences, Fighting, Simulation and strategy titles, and Sports/Racing games. Together, these classifications actually cover a lot of ground, and you can find room for numerous titles.
This doesn't apply to brain-teasing titles. No suitable classification appears to accommodate them. Examine these examples from this year’s best games, showing diverse approaches: the architectural riddles from a specific release, intense tile-matching in a different title, and the sweetly sociological logic puzzles in another game. Where could they possibly go among existing types? Unfortunately, nowhere.
Recognition Challenges
There are dozens excellent brain-teasers launched regularly lacking appropriate categories during gaming ceremonies, unless they happen to qualify classification types such as Handheld titles, Virtual reality experiences, or the intensely contested independent game categories.
- An iconic brain-teaser received no recognition for anything during that awards season
- Another creative title received no nominations in 2019
- A beloved organization game was overlooked that year
- Just some logic titles barely qualified for niche award types
Importance of Logic Titles
Commonly they're small games, however the design in brain-teasers is of massive significance. Iconic mobile puzzle games stand as most popular titles worldwide and have been for many years.
The legendary block-stacking game rivals popular creative games competing to become highest-selling title ever; 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.
The Solution and Justification
Puzzle games wouldn’t have this problem. One could readily select a field of five engaging, different, qualified experiences each ceremony simply — actually, with challenge, because you’d have to leave many worthy titles.
To emphasize again, these represent titles without proper classification in important events. Logic title developers are working at the hard edge of video game design, producing among the purest expressions of gaming itself. Just like film action specialists, they merit acknowledgment. Don't make them wait decades.
