Each time a significant honors show approaches, one notices a demand for the addition of new categories to honor underappreciated efforts and satisfy the hearts of enthusiasts with niche passions.
My colleague made the case supporting a scary games classification. It would be amazing. Equally deserving are board games, which is someone's personal cause. Yet I need to apologize in advance when I prioritize since similar to single-minded supporters, I have a cast-iron argument supporting my request stands as crucial above others. Here's the proposal: It's essential to create a category for puzzle games.
Categorizing Game Types
Classifying creative works defies precise measurement; it remains highly personal, and typically generate discussions resulting in unclear classifications. It's understandable that cinema institutions avoid this approach. But it is an essential concession in the world of interactive entertainment, that demonstrate such variety it's challenging to consider them a single creative category.
To recognize the complete range of interactive entertainment excellence to receive acknowledgment, and to ensure all game types to receive proper recognition, genre categories are essential.
Existing Game Classification System
The major gaming awards presently include genre categories for Action, Action/Adventure, Role-Playing, Combat games, Simulation and strategy titles, plus athletic and racing experiences. Together, these classifications successfully include a lot of ground, making space possible for numerous titles.
This doesn't apply to logic-based experiences. No suitable classification appears to accommodate them. Consider three of recent excellent titles, each quite distinct: the architectural riddles from a specific release, intense tile-matching of another game, thought-provoking social scenarios of a third title. Which classification works among existing types? Nowhere, that’s where.
Acknowledgment Issues
Many instances occur outstanding logic titles released every year that have no home at major award shows, if they accidentally match for categories like Handheld titles, Virtual reality experiences, or the intensely contested independent game categories.
- One classic puzzle game wasn’t nominated in any category that year
- Another creative title was excluded during that ceremony
- Well-received sorting experience received no acknowledgment that year
- Limited numbers of puzzle games managed to sneak into independent or mobile categories
Importance of Logic Titles
Commonly they're modest productions, but the art behind logic titles holds tremendous importance. Iconic mobile puzzle games rank among most engaged experiences worldwide and have been for over a decade.
The legendary block-stacking game competes with well-known building titles for the title of best-selling game of all time; it also contends for best game of all time. Brain-teasers form essential building blocks to the art of video games, and engaging with diverse game types.
Proposal and Rationale
Puzzle games wouldn’t have such difficulty. You could fill multiple candidates engaging, different, qualified experiences every year with ease — actually, with challenge, since numerous excellent numerous deserving experiences.
Restating the point, these represent titles without proper classification at major gaming awards. Brain-teaser creators are working at the hard edge of video game design, producing among the purest expressions of the video game form. Comparable to film action specialists, they merit acknowledgment. Let’s not keep them waiting decades.
