Each time a major prize-giving event nears, there’s always an outcry for introducing fresh award types to acknowledge unsung work and satisfy the passions of enthusiasts who have specialized interests.
My colleague has already made for a horror game category. That would rule. So would board games, representing someone's personal cause. However, I must insist when I prioritize because like all dedicated enthusiasts, I have a cast-iron argument backing this proposal stands as crucial and important of all. Here's the proposal: We need a classification for brain-teasing titles.
Categorizing Game Types
Organizing artistic expressions isn't exact; opinions vary greatly, and inevitably spark debates and end in fuzzy definitions. This explains why movie academies don’t do it. Yet it remains a necessary evil within the realm of video games, showing incredible range they hardly constitute as a single art form.
To recognize the complete range of interactive entertainment excellence to receive acknowledgment, and to ensure all game types to receive proper recognition, specific award classifications remain vital.
Present Award Structure
Prominent interactive entertainment events presently include classifications covering Action, Adventure-action titles, Role-Playing, Combat games, Sim/Strategy, and Sports/Racing games. Collectively, these six categories effectively encompass a lot of ground, allowing placement accommodating various experiences.
Different situation exists for puzzle games. No appropriate category exists to accommodate them. Consider three of recent excellent titles, all very different: structural challenges in a particular game, fast-paced pattern recognition in a different title, engaging interpersonal challenges in another game. Where could they possibly go between these six categories? Simply put, no category fits.
Acknowledgment Issues
Numerous examples exist outstanding logic titles published annually that have no home at major award shows, except when they manage to fit award groups including Mobile Game, Virtual reality experiences, or the extremely competitive independent game categories.
- A renowned logic title received no recognition completely that year
- Another imaginative release was excluded in 2019
- Well-received sorting experience was overlooked in 2021
- Just some logic titles scraped into niche award types
Importance of Logic Titles
Commonly they're modest productions, however the design in brain-teasers holds tremendous importance. Iconic mobile puzzle games rank among the most-played games worldwide and have been for over a decade.
The iconic tile-matching title competes with popular creative games claiming status as most purchased experience; it additionally competes for best game of all time. Logic titles represent cornerstones within interactive entertainment, and they are in conversation with almost every other genre.
Recommendation and Reasoning
Puzzle games wouldn’t have this problem. It would be easy to populate multiple candidates engaging, different, qualified experiences every year with ease — or rather, with difficulty, since numerous excellent numerous deserving experiences.
And to reiterate, these include experiences that otherwise have no home in important events. Logic title developers are working at the challenging frontier game development, producing among the purest expressions within interactive entertainment. Just like cinema stunt performers, they deserve recognition. Don't make them wait 35 years.
