As any prominent awards ceremony draws close, you'll find a clamor for introducing fresh award types to recognize underappreciated efforts and fill the spirits of followers with niche passions.
Another commentator made the case supporting a scary games classification. That would be fantastic. Equally deserving are strategy board titles, this being a passionate advocate's mission. However, I must insist for pushing forward since similar to dedicated enthusiasts, I have a cast-iron argument supporting my request remains most pressing and significant. The demand is this: It's essential to create a category for puzzle games.
Categorizing Game Types
Categorizing art by genre isn't exact; opinions vary greatly, and it will always spark debates and end in fuzzy definitions. This explains why movie academies don’t do it. Yet it remains a necessary evil for the industry of interactive entertainment, that demonstrate such variety they hardly constitute a single creative category.
For comprehensive acknowledgment of gaming accomplishments to gain proper attention, while allowing diverse titles to receive proper recognition, genre categories are essential.
Existing Game Classification System
The major gaming awards offer these classifications covering Action, Action/Adventure, RPG experiences, Fighting, Simulation and strategy titles, and Sports/Racing games. Together, these award types actually cover a lot of ground, making space possible for most games within them.
Not so for puzzle games. There’s simply nowhere to accommodate them. Examine these examples from this year’s best games, each quite distinct: building puzzles in a particular game, intense tile-matching in a different title, and the sweetly sociological logic puzzles in another game. Which classification works between these six categories? Nowhere, that’s where.
The Representation Problem
There are dozens outstanding logic titles released every year that have no home in entertainment awards, except when they manage to fit for categories like Handheld titles, Virtual reality experiences, and the highly challenging small studio competitions.
- A renowned logic title wasn’t nominated completely that year
- Another creative title was excluded during that ceremony
- Popular arranging title was overlooked recently
- Only a few logic titles barely qualified for small studio or handheld classifications
Importance of Logic Titles
Commonly they're compact experiences, yet the craft behind logic titles carries substantial weight. Iconic mobile puzzle games stand as most engaged experiences globally continuing this trend for an extended period.
The legendary block-stacking game competes with popular creative games claiming status as most purchased experience; it additionally competes as greatest title ever. Logic titles represent cornerstones for gaming as medium, and they are in conversation with diverse game types.
The Solution and Justification
Brain-teasers wouldn't encounter that issue. One could readily select a field of five with fascinating, diverse, deserving games every year with ease — or rather, with difficulty, because you’d have to leave many worthy titles.
Restating the point, these include experiences lacking appropriate categories in important events. Puzzle game makers operate at the challenging frontier game development, developing some of the purest expressions of the video game form. Similar to cinema stunt performers, they deserve recognition. Let’s not keep them waiting 35 years.
