Each time a prominent honors show draws close, you'll find a clamor for introducing fresh award types to honor underappreciated efforts and satisfy the passions of followers with niche passions.
Another commentator has already made supporting a scary games classification. That would be fantastic. So would board games, this being someone's personal cause. Yet I need to apologize in advance when I prioritize just as with other single-minded supporters, there's a strong justification supporting my request remains most pressing and important of all. This is the request: There should be a category for puzzle games.
Categorizing Game Types
Categorizing art by genre defies precise measurement; it remains highly personal, and it will always spark debates concluding with vague boundaries. There’s a reason film award organizations steer clear of genre categories. However, it represents an unavoidable compromise for the industry of video games, that demonstrate such variety they hardly constitute one unified medium.
For the full spectrum of achievement in video games to be recognized, while allowing diverse titles to compete fairly, specific award classifications remain vital.
Current Gaming Award Categories
Leading game ceremonies offer these classifications covering Action, Adventure-action titles, Role-Playing, Combat games, Simulation and strategy titles, and Sports/Racing games. Collectively, these award types actually cover a lot of ground, allowing placement accommodating various experiences.
Different situation exists for brain-teasing titles. No appropriate category exists to put them. Examine these examples from outstanding current releases, all very different: building puzzles in a particular game, the pulse-pounding block-matching of another game, thought-provoking social scenarios in another game. What category would fit them within current classifications? Nowhere, that’s where.
Recognition Challenges
There are dozens of brilliant puzzle games launched regularly that have no home at major award shows, unless they happen to qualify award groups including Mobile Game, Virtual reality experiences, and the highly challenging small studio competitions.
- A renowned logic title got overlooked for anything during that awards season
- Another imaginative release was excluded that year
- A beloved organization game received no acknowledgment recently
- Only a few brain-teasers managed to sneak into independent or mobile categories
Importance of Logic Titles
Commonly they're small games, however the design in brain-teasers carries substantial weight. Iconic mobile puzzle games stand as most popular titles worldwide continuing this trend for over a decade.
The legendary block-stacking game rivals well-known building titles claiming status as highest-selling title ever; it additionally competes for top gaming experience. Brain-teasers form essential building blocks to the art of video games, and they are in conversation with almost every other genre.
The Solution and Justification
Brain-teasers wouldn't encounter such difficulty. It would be easy to populate a field of five with fascinating, diverse, deserving games every year with ease — or rather, with difficulty, given the need to exclude numerous deserving experiences.
And to reiterate, these include experiences that otherwise have no home in important events. Brain-teaser creators operate at the challenging frontier interactive creation, creating some of essential manifestations of the video game form. Just like film action specialists, they warrant appreciation. Don't make them wait decades.
