As any major honors show nears, there’s always an outcry to include fresh award types to acknowledge underappreciated efforts and satisfy the spirits of fans with niche passions.
A fellow writer previously argued supporting a scary games classification. That would be fantastic. The same goes for board games, which is a dedicated supporter's campaign. But they will have to forgive me when I prioritize because like all single-minded supporters, there's a strong justification supporting my request is the most urgent and important of all. The demand is this: There should be an award type for logic-based games.
Categorizing Game Types
Classifying creative works is not a science; it remains highly personal, and inevitably generate discussions and end in fuzzy definitions. This explains why movie academies steer clear of genre categories. But it is an unavoidable compromise for the industry of video games, showing incredible range they barely qualify as a single art form.
To recognize the complete range of achievement in video games to be recognized, while allowing diverse titles to have a chance for representation, classification by type becomes crucial.
Existing Game Classification System
The major gaming awards offer these classifications covering Action, Action/Adventure, Role-Playing, Fighting, Simulation and strategy titles, plus athletic and racing experiences. Together, these six categories effectively encompass many game types, making space possible for most games within them.
This doesn't apply to puzzle games. There’s simply nowhere to put them. Examine these examples from outstanding current releases, showing diverse approaches: structural challenges in a particular game, fast-paced pattern recognition from another release, thought-provoking social scenarios of a third title. What category would fit them between these six categories? Nowhere, that’s where.
Acknowledgment Issues
There are dozens excellent brain-teasers released every year that have no home during gaming ceremonies, unless they happen to qualify classification types such as Handheld titles, Virtual reality experiences, or the intensely contested small studio competitions.
- A renowned logic title received no recognition in any category in 2014
- A different innovative game received no nominations during that ceremony
- Popular arranging title was overlooked recently
- Only a few brain-teasers scraped into independent or mobile categories
Significance of Puzzle Games
These are often modest productions, yet the craft in brain-teasers carries substantial weight. Iconic mobile puzzle games count as most engaged experiences in the world and have been for an extended period.
The famous puzzle experience competes with popular creative games for the title of most purchased experience; it’s also in the running for best game of all time. Logic titles represent cornerstones to the art of video games, and they are in conversation with almost every other genre.
Recommendation and Reasoning
Brain-teasers wouldn't encounter such difficulty. One could readily select a field of five interesting, varied, worthy titles every year with ease — actually, with challenge, because you’d have to leave so many good games out.
To emphasize again, these include experiences that otherwise have no home in important events. Puzzle game makers operate at the demanding boundary game development, developing some of most fundamental forms of the video game form. Comparable to cinema stunt performers, they deserve recognition. Let’s not keep them waiting decades.
