As any significant prize-giving event approaches, you'll find a demand to include additional classifications to acknowledge overlooked contributions and delight the passions of followers who have specialized interests.
A fellow writer has already made for a horror game category. It would be amazing. The same goes for strategy board titles, which is a passionate advocate's mission. But they will have to forgive me when I prioritize because like all dedicated enthusiasts, I possess a compelling case backing this proposal is the most urgent and significant. The demand is this: We need an award type for logic-based games.
Organizing Gaming Categories
Categorizing art by genre is not a science; opinions vary greatly, and it will always spark debates concluding with vague boundaries. This explains why cinema institutions don’t do it. But it is an essential concession for the industry of video games, that demonstrate such variety they barely qualify a single creative category.
For comprehensive acknowledgment of interactive entertainment excellence to be recognized, and to ensure all game types to have a chance for representation, genre categories are essential.
Existing Game Classification System
Prominent interactive entertainment events presently include classifications covering Action, Action/Adventure, RPG experiences, Fighting, Simulation and strategy titles, plus athletic and racing experiences. Between them, these six categories actually cover numerous genres, allowing placement for numerous titles.
This doesn't apply to brain-teasing titles. No suitable classification appears to accommodate them. Think about these this year’s best games, showing diverse approaches: structural challenges in a particular game, the pulse-pounding block-matching from another release, thought-provoking social scenarios from additional release. What category would fit them between these six categories? Unfortunately, nowhere.
Acknowledgment Issues
Numerous examples exist excellent brain-teasers published annually lacking appropriate categories in entertainment awards, if they accidentally match award groups including Handheld titles, VR/AR Game, or the extremely competitive Indie races.
- A renowned logic title wasn’t nominated for anything that year
- A different innovative game received no nominations during that ceremony
- A beloved organization game got ignored recently
- Limited numbers of puzzle games barely qualified for niche award types
Significance of Puzzle Games
These are often modest productions, but the art in brain-teasers carries substantial weight. Iconic mobile puzzle games stand as most popular titles globally maintaining this status for many years.
The legendary block-stacking game competes with famous sandbox experiences competing to become best-selling game of all time; it also contends as greatest title ever. Puzzle games are foundational to the art of video games, while interacting with almost every other genre.
The Solution and Justification
Puzzle games wouldn’t have this problem. It would be easy to populate a field of five interesting, varied, worthy titles every year with ease — perhaps, with difficulty, given the need to exclude so many good games out.
Restating the point, these are games that otherwise have no home in important events. Logic title developers operate at the demanding boundary game development, developing some of essential manifestations of gaming itself. Just like cinema stunt performers, they merit acknowledgment. Let’s not keep them waiting generations.
