As any major awards ceremony draws close, you'll find a clamor to include additional classifications to acknowledge overlooked contributions and delight the spirits of enthusiasts dedicated to specific genres.
A fellow writer previously argued for a horror game category. That would rule. The same goes for strategy board titles, representing a dedicated supporter's campaign. However, I must insist for pushing forward because like all dedicated enthusiasts, I have a cast-iron argument backing this proposal stands as crucial above others. This is the request: We need an award type for logic-based games.
Categorizing Game Types
Organizing artistic expressions is not a science; it remains highly personal, and it will always generate discussions and end in fuzzy definitions. It's understandable that movie academies don’t do it. However, it represents an unavoidable compromise within the realm of interactive entertainment, which are so diverse they barely qualify as a single art form.
For comprehensive acknowledgment of achievement in video games to gain proper attention, and for games of all stripes to have a chance for representation, genre categories are essential.
Current Gaming Award Categories
Leading game ceremonies currently feature award types recognizing Action, Adventure-action titles, Role-Playing, Combat games, Sim/Strategy, plus athletic and racing experiences. Between them, these award types actually cover a lot of ground, making space possible for numerous titles.
Not so for puzzle games. No appropriate category exists to put them. Think about these this year’s best games, all very different: the architectural riddles in a particular game, the pulse-pounding block-matching from another release, and the sweetly sociological logic puzzles from additional release. What category would fit them between these six categories? Unfortunately, nowhere.
Recognition Challenges
Numerous examples exist of brilliant puzzle games published annually lacking appropriate categories at major award shows, if they accidentally match for categories like Mobile Game, Virtual reality experiences, or the intensely contested Indie races.
- A renowned logic title wasn’t nominated completely during that awards season
- Another creative title missed out that year
- Popular arranging title got ignored recently
- Just some puzzle games scraped into small studio or handheld classifications
Value of Brain-Teasers
These are often small games, yet the craft in brain-teasers is of massive significance. Iconic mobile puzzle games stand as most engaged experiences in the world continuing this trend for over a decade.
The iconic tile-matching title rivals popular creative games competing to become most purchased experience; it additionally competes for top gaming experience. Logic titles represent cornerstones for gaming as medium, and they are in conversation with almost every other genre.
Recommendation and Reasoning
Puzzle games wouldn’t have such difficulty. You could fill a field of five with fascinating, diverse, deserving games every year with ease — perhaps, with difficulty, since numerous excellent many worthy titles.
To emphasize again, these represent titles that otherwise have no home at major gaming awards. Brain-teaser creators are working at the hard edge of video game design, creating some of most fundamental forms of gaming itself. Comparable to cinema stunt performers, they deserve recognition. Let’s not keep them waiting generations.
