Whenever a significant awards ceremony draws close, you'll find an outcry to include additional classifications to acknowledge overlooked contributions and fill the hearts of followers dedicated to specific genres.
A fellow writer previously argued for a horror game category. That would rule. So would strategy board titles, which is a dedicated supporter's campaign. However, I must insist if I try to elbow in front because like all single-minded supporters, I possess a compelling case supporting my request stands as crucial and significant. Here's the proposal: There should be a category for puzzle games.
Organizing Gaming Categories
Organizing artistic expressions isn't exact; opinions vary greatly, and it will always generate discussions and end in fuzzy definitions. This explains why film award organizations don’t do it. But it is a necessary evil in the world of gaming, which are so diverse they barely qualify a single creative category.
To recognize the complete range of gaming accomplishments to receive acknowledgment, while allowing diverse titles to compete fairly, classification by type becomes crucial.
Current Gaming Award Categories
Prominent interactive entertainment events offer these genre categories for Action, Adventure-action titles, RPG experiences, Fighting, Simulation and strategy titles, and Sports/Racing games. Between them, these classifications actually cover a lot of ground, and you can find room for most games within them.
Different situation exists for brain-teasing titles. There’s simply nowhere to accommodate them. Examine these examples from this year’s best games, all very different: building puzzles from a specific release, intense tile-matching from another release, engaging interpersonal challenges from additional release. What category would fit them between these six categories? Simply put, no category fits.
The Representation Problem
There are dozens of brilliant puzzle games launched regularly lacking appropriate categories in entertainment awards, except when they manage to fit classification types such as Mobile Game, VR/AR Game, or the intensely contested Indie races.
- One classic puzzle game received no recognition in any category in 2014
- Another imaginative release missed out during that ceremony
- Popular arranging title was overlooked that year
- Just some brain-teasers managed to sneak into small studio or handheld classifications
Significance of Puzzle Games
Frequently they represent modest productions, yet the craft in brain-teasers is of massive significance. Famous handheld logic titles rank among most engaged experiences in the world and have been for an extended period.
The famous puzzle experience challenges popular creative games claiming status as most purchased experience; it’s also in the running for best game of all time. Logic titles represent cornerstones within interactive entertainment, and engaging with almost every other genre.
Proposal and Rationale
Brain-teasers wouldn't encounter this problem. One could readily select multiple candidates with fascinating, diverse, deserving games annually without trouble — perhaps, with difficulty, since numerous excellent many worthy titles.
Restating the point, these represent titles that otherwise have no home during prominent ceremonies. Logic title developers are working at the demanding boundary of video game design, creating some of essential manifestations of gaming itself. Just like movie stunt professionals, they merit acknowledgment. Don't make them wait decades.
