Whenever a prominent honors show draws close, there’s always a demand to include fresh award types to recognize overlooked contributions and satisfy the spirits of fans with niche passions.
Another commentator has already made for a horror game category. That would be fantastic. So would strategy board titles, this being someone's personal cause. However, I must insist if I try to elbow in front because like all blinkered fanatics, there's a strong justification backing this proposal stands as crucial and important of all. Here's the proposal: We need a category for puzzle games.
Organizing Gaming Categories
Categorizing art by genre isn't exact; it remains highly personal, and typically start arguments and end in fuzzy definitions. It's understandable that cinema institutions don’t do it. However, it represents an unavoidable compromise for the industry of interactive entertainment, showing incredible range they barely qualify one unified medium.
To recognize the complete range of gaming accomplishments to be recognized, while allowing diverse titles to receive proper recognition, genre categories are essential.
Existing Game Classification System
Prominent interactive entertainment events offer these classifications covering Action-oriented games, Action/Adventure, RPG experiences, Combat games, Simulation and strategy titles, plus athletic and racing experiences. Collectively, these classifications actually cover many game types, allowing placement accommodating various experiences.
Different situation exists for brain-teasing titles. No suitable classification appears to put them. Consider three of this year’s best games, showing diverse approaches: building puzzles of one title, the pulse-pounding block-matching from another release, thought-provoking social scenarios in another game. Where could they possibly go between these six categories? Nowhere, that’s where.
Recognition Challenges
Numerous examples exist of brilliant puzzle games launched regularly that have no home at major award shows, if they accidentally match award groups including Handheld titles, Virtual reality experiences, or the intensely contested Indie races.
- A renowned logic title wasn’t nominated for anything that year
- A different innovative game was excluded that year
- A beloved organization game was overlooked that year
- Only a few brain-teasers barely qualified for independent or mobile categories
Value of Brain-Teasers
These are often modest productions, yet the craft of the puzzle game holds tremendous importance. Iconic mobile puzzle games rank among most popular titles in the world and have been for an extended period.
The iconic tile-matching title competes with well-known building titles competing to become most purchased experience; it also contends as greatest title ever. Logic titles represent cornerstones for gaming as medium, while interacting with almost every other genre.
Proposal and Rationale
Puzzle games wouldn’t have such difficulty. You could fill multiple candidates engaging, different, qualified experiences annually without trouble — or rather, with difficulty, given the need to exclude so many good games out.
And to reiterate, these include experiences lacking appropriate categories in important events. Puzzle game makers operate at the demanding boundary of video game design, producing among the purest expressions of gaming itself. Similar to movie stunt professionals, they warrant appreciation. Let’s not keep them waiting generations.
