Each time a major awards ceremony nears, one notices a demand to include additional classifications to honor unsung work and satisfy the passions of fans who have specialized interests.
A fellow writer made the case supporting a scary games classification. It would be amazing. Equally deserving are tabletop games, this being someone's personal cause. However, I must insist for pushing forward since similar to single-minded supporters, I have a cast-iron argument supporting my request stands as crucial above others. The demand is this: There should be a category for puzzle games.
The Genre Classification Challenge
Categorizing art by genre defies precise measurement; it’s very subjective, and typically start arguments concluding with vague boundaries. This explains why film award organizations avoid this approach. Yet it remains an unavoidable compromise within the realm of video games, showing incredible range it's challenging to consider them one unified medium.
For comprehensive acknowledgment of achievement in video games to be recognized, and for games of all stripes to receive proper recognition, specific award classifications remain vital.
Present Award Structure
Prominent interactive entertainment events offer these award types recognizing Action-oriented games, Action/Adventure, Role-Playing, Fighting, Sim/Strategy, and Sports/Racing games. Between them, these six categories successfully include a lot of ground, allowing placement accommodating various experiences.
Not so for logic-based experiences. There’s simply nowhere for their placement. Think about these recent excellent titles, all very different: the architectural riddles from a specific release, intense tile-matching from another release, thought-provoking social scenarios in another game. Where could they possibly go within current classifications? Unfortunately, nowhere.
Recognition Challenges
There are dozens of brilliant puzzle games released every year without proper recognition during gaming ceremonies, except when they manage to fit award groups including Handheld titles, Virtual reality experiences, or the intensely contested Indie races.
- One classic puzzle game got overlooked completely in 2014
- A different innovative game missed out during that ceremony
- Well-received sorting experience received no acknowledgment that year
- Just some puzzle games scraped into niche award types
Significance of Puzzle Games
These are often small games, yet the craft behind logic titles carries substantial weight. Famous handheld logic titles stand as most engaged experiences in the world maintaining this status for over a decade.
The famous puzzle experience challenges well-known building titles for the title of highest-selling title ever; it’s also in the running for top gaming experience. Brain-teasers form essential building blocks for gaming as medium, while interacting across multiple categories.
Proposal and Rationale
Brain-teasers wouldn't encounter that issue. It would be easy to populate five nominees with fascinating, diverse, deserving games each ceremony simply — or rather, with difficulty, since numerous excellent many worthy titles.
And to reiterate, these represent titles lacking appropriate categories in important events. Brain-teaser creators are working at the demanding boundary interactive creation, producing among the purest expressions of gaming itself. Comparable to film action specialists, they merit acknowledgment. Don't make them wait 35 years.
