Each time a major honors show nears, one notices a demand for the addition of new categories to acknowledge overlooked contributions and satisfy the passions of followers who have specialized interests.
My colleague previously argued advocating for terror-themed awards. That would rule. The same goes for tabletop games, this being someone's personal cause. Yet I need to apologize in advance when I prioritize since similar to single-minded supporters, there's a strong justification supporting my request stands as crucial and important of all. The demand is this: It's essential to create a category for puzzle games.
Categorizing Game Types
Organizing artistic expressions defies precise measurement; opinions vary greatly, and typically start arguments resulting in unclear classifications. This explains why film award organizations don’t do it. Yet it remains an unavoidable compromise for the industry of gaming, showing incredible range they barely qualify one unified medium.
For comprehensive acknowledgment of interactive entertainment excellence to receive acknowledgment, and for games of all stripes to have a chance for representation, genre categories are essential.
Present Award Structure
The major gaming awards offer these classifications covering Action, Action/Adventure, RPG experiences, Combat games, Simulation and strategy titles, plus athletic and racing experiences. Between them, these classifications effectively encompass numerous genres, making space possible for numerous titles.
This doesn't apply to logic-based experiences. There’s simply nowhere to accommodate them. Examine these examples from this year’s best games, all very different: structural challenges from a specific release, fast-paced pattern recognition in a different title, engaging interpersonal challenges in another game. Where could they possibly go among existing types? Nowhere, that’s where.
Acknowledgment Issues
Many instances occur excellent brain-teasers released every year that have no home during gaming ceremonies, except when they manage to fit classification types such as Mobile Game, Virtual reality experiences, or the intensely contested Indie races.
- An iconic brain-teaser wasn’t nominated completely in 2014
- Another imaginative release was excluded that year
- Popular arranging title received no acknowledgment that year
- Just some logic titles managed to sneak into small studio or handheld classifications
Importance of Logic Titles
Frequently they represent small games, however the design behind logic titles is of massive significance. Famous handheld logic titles count as most popular titles globally maintaining this status for over a decade.
The iconic tile-matching title competes with well-known building titles claiming status as best-selling game of all time; it additionally competes for best game of all time. Puzzle games are foundational to the art of video games, while interacting with almost every other genre.
The Solution and Justification
Brain-teasers wouldn't encounter this problem. One could readily select five nominees interesting, varied, worthy titles annually without trouble — perhaps, with difficulty, given the need to exclude so many good games out.
To emphasize again, these represent titles without proper classification at major gaming awards. Brain-teaser creators operate at the challenging frontier of video game design, developing some of the purest expressions of the video game form. Just like movie stunt professionals, they merit acknowledgment. Don't make them wait generations.
