Each time a major honors show draws close, there’s always an outcry for introducing of new categories to recognize unsung work and fill the spirits of enthusiasts with niche passions.
Another commentator previously argued for a horror game category. That would rule. The same goes for board games, which is a dedicated supporter's campaign. However, I must insist when I prioritize just as with other dedicated enthusiasts, I possess a compelling case backing this proposal remains most pressing and significant. This is the request: There should be an award type for logic-based games.
Organizing Gaming Categories
Categorizing art by genre defies precise measurement; it remains highly personal, and inevitably start arguments and end in fuzzy definitions. There’s a reason movie academies steer clear of genre categories. However, it represents an essential concession within the realm of gaming, which are so diverse they barely qualify one unified medium.
For comprehensive acknowledgment of achievement in video games to gain proper attention, and for games of all stripes to receive proper recognition, specific award classifications remain vital.
Present Award Structure
Prominent interactive entertainment events presently include genre categories for Action-oriented games, Action/Adventure, RPG experiences, Fighting, Sim/Strategy, and Sports/Racing games. Between them, these six categories actually cover a lot of ground, allowing placement for numerous titles.
This doesn't apply to brain-teasing titles. No appropriate category exists to accommodate them. Examine these examples from this year’s best games, all very different: structural challenges in a particular game, fast-paced pattern recognition from another release, and the sweetly sociological logic puzzles of a third title. Where could they possibly go within current classifications? Simply put, no category fits.
Recognition Challenges
Many instances occur of brilliant puzzle games released every year that have no home in entertainment awards, unless they happen to qualify for categories like Mobile Game, Virtual reality experiences, and the highly challenging Indie races.
- One classic puzzle game wasn’t nominated in any category that year
- Another creative title received no nominations during that ceremony
- Well-received sorting experience was overlooked recently
- Just some puzzle games scraped into independent or mobile categories
Significance of Puzzle Games
Commonly they're small games, however the design behind logic titles holds tremendous importance. Well-known matching games stand as most popular titles in the world and have been for many years.
The iconic tile-matching title rivals popular creative games for the title of best-selling game of all time; it additionally competes as greatest title ever. Puzzle games are foundational within interactive entertainment, and engaging with almost every other genre.
The Solution and Justification
Brain-teasers wouldn't encounter such difficulty. You could fill a field of five engaging, different, qualified experiences every year with ease — perhaps, with difficulty, because you’d have to leave many worthy titles.
To emphasize again, these are games without proper classification in important events. Brain-teaser creators function at the challenging frontier interactive creation, creating some of the purest expressions of the video game form. Comparable to movie stunt professionals, they merit acknowledgment. Don't make them wait 35 years.
