Whenever a major prize-giving event approaches, you'll find an outcry for the addition of new categories to honor underappreciated efforts and satisfy the hearts of fans who have specialized interests.
Another commentator previously argued supporting a scary games classification. That would be fantastic. Equally deserving are board games, which is a dedicated supporter's campaign. Yet I need to apologize in advance when I prioritize because like all blinkered fanatics, I have a cast-iron argument supporting my request remains most pressing and important of all. The demand is this: We need an award type for logic-based games.
Categorizing Game Types
Organizing artistic expressions is not a science; it remains highly personal, and inevitably generate discussions and end in fuzzy definitions. It's understandable that film award organizations don’t do it. But it is an unavoidable compromise for the industry of gaming, showing incredible range they hardly constitute one unified medium.
For the full spectrum of achievement in video games to gain proper attention, and to ensure all game types to receive proper recognition, classification by type becomes crucial.
Current Gaming Award Categories
Leading game ceremonies presently include genre categories for Action, Adventure-action titles, RPG experiences, Combat games, Simulation and strategy titles, plus athletic and racing experiences. Collectively, these classifications effectively encompass many game types, making space possible accommodating various experiences.
Different situation exists for puzzle games. No appropriate category exists to put them. Examine these examples from recent excellent titles, all very different: structural challenges of one title, the pulse-pounding block-matching in a different title, engaging interpersonal challenges of a third title. Where could they possibly go among existing types? Unfortunately, nowhere.
Recognition Challenges
Numerous examples exist excellent brain-teasers launched regularly that have no home during gaming ceremonies, unless they happen to qualify award groups including Mobile Game, Virtual reality experiences, or the intensely contested small studio competitions.
- An iconic brain-teaser got overlooked completely in 2014
- Another creative title was excluded during that ceremony
- Popular arranging title got ignored that year
- Just some brain-teasers managed to sneak into independent or mobile categories
Significance of Puzzle Games
Frequently they represent small games, but the art of the puzzle game holds tremendous importance. Well-known matching games rank among most popular titles in the world and have been for an extended period.
The legendary block-stacking game competes with famous sandbox experiences for the title of highest-selling title ever; it additionally competes for top gaming experience. Brain-teasers form essential building blocks within interactive entertainment, and they are in conversation across multiple categories.
The Solution and Justification
Puzzle games wouldn’t have that issue. One could readily select multiple candidates with fascinating, diverse, deserving games annually without trouble — perhaps, with difficulty, given the need to exclude so many good games out.
To emphasize again, these are games without proper classification at major gaming awards. Logic title developers function at the challenging frontier of video game design, creating some of essential manifestations within interactive entertainment. Similar to film action specialists, they merit acknowledgment. Don't make them wait 35 years.
