Each time a prominent prize-giving event nears, there’s always a demand to include fresh award types to honor unsung work and satisfy the passions of fans who have specialized interests.
Another commentator has already made for a horror game category. That would be fantastic. So would tabletop games, representing a passionate advocate's mission. However, I must insist for pushing forward since similar to dedicated enthusiasts, I have a cast-iron argument for why my demand remains most pressing and important of all. This is the request: We need a category for puzzle games.
Categorizing Game Types
Organizing artistic expressions is not a science; opinions vary greatly, and it will always generate discussions concluding with vague boundaries. It's understandable that cinema institutions avoid this approach. Yet it remains an essential concession within the realm of interactive entertainment, showing incredible range it's challenging to consider them a single creative category.
To recognize the complete range of achievement in video games to gain proper attention, and to ensure all game types to have a chance for representation, genre categories are essential.
Current Gaming Award Categories
Leading game ceremonies offer these classifications covering Action-oriented games, Action/Adventure, RPG experiences, Combat games, Simulation and strategy titles, and Sports/Racing games. Collectively, these award types successfully include a lot of ground, making space possible for most games within them.
Different situation exists for puzzle games. No suitable classification appears to accommodate them. Examine these examples from this year’s best games, showing diverse approaches: the architectural riddles of one title, intense tile-matching of another game, and the sweetly sociological logic puzzles from additional release. What category would fit them within current classifications? Unfortunately, nowhere.
Acknowledgment Issues
Numerous examples exist excellent brain-teasers published annually that have no home at major award shows, if they accidentally match classification types such as Handheld titles, VR/AR Game, and the highly challenging Indie races.
- An iconic brain-teaser got overlooked for anything that year
- Another creative title received no nominations in 2019
- A beloved organization game was overlooked recently
- Just some puzzle games scraped into small studio or handheld classifications
Importance of Logic Titles
Commonly they're small games, but the art of the puzzle game carries substantial weight. Well-known matching games stand as most engaged experiences in the world and have been for many years.
The iconic tile-matching title challenges popular creative games competing to become most purchased experience; it additionally competes for top gaming experience. Brain-teasers form essential building blocks to the art of video games, while interacting across multiple categories.
Proposal and Rationale
Logic titles wouldn't face that issue. One could readily select multiple candidates with fascinating, diverse, deserving games each ceremony simply — actually, with challenge, given the need to exclude many worthy titles.
Restating the point, these include experiences lacking appropriate categories during prominent ceremonies. Brain-teaser creators are working at the demanding boundary of video game design, creating some of most fundamental forms of gaming itself. Comparable to cinema stunt performers, they deserve recognition. We shouldn't delay decades.
