As any major prize-giving event nears, one notices a clamor to include additional classifications to recognize underappreciated efforts and delight the hearts of enthusiasts with niche passions.
Another commentator made the case for a horror game category. It would be amazing. So would board games, which is a passionate advocate's mission. However, I must insist when I prioritize because like all dedicated enthusiasts, there's a strong justification backing this proposal stands as crucial and significant. This is the request: It's essential to create an award type for logic-based games.
Categorizing Game Types
Organizing artistic expressions is not a science; it’s very subjective, and typically start arguments resulting in unclear classifications. This explains why cinema institutions avoid this approach. Yet it remains an essential concession for the industry of video games, that demonstrate such variety they hardly constitute one unified medium.
To recognize the complete range of gaming accomplishments to be recognized, and for games of all stripes to compete fairly, specific award classifications remain vital.
Existing Game Classification System
The major gaming awards presently include classifications covering Action, Action/Adventure, RPG experiences, Fighting, Sim/Strategy, and Sports/Racing games. Together, these classifications successfully include numerous genres, allowing placement for most games within them.
Different situation exists for puzzle games. No suitable classification appears for their placement. Examine these examples from recent excellent titles, showing diverse approaches: the architectural riddles in a particular game, intense tile-matching from another release, thought-provoking social scenarios of a third title. What category would fit them within current classifications? Unfortunately, nowhere.
The Representation Problem
There are dozens excellent brain-teasers published annually lacking appropriate categories in entertainment awards, except when they manage to fit for categories like Mobile Game, VR/AR Game, or the intensely contested Indie races.
- A renowned logic title wasn’t nominated in any category during that awards season
- A different innovative game was excluded that year
- Popular arranging title got ignored recently
- Limited numbers of puzzle games scraped into independent or mobile categories
Value of Brain-Teasers
These are often modest productions, but the art of the puzzle game holds tremendous importance. Iconic mobile puzzle games rank among the most-played games in the world continuing this trend for an extended period.
The legendary block-stacking game rivals 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, while interacting with diverse game types.
Recommendation and Reasoning
Brain-teasers wouldn't encounter that issue. It would be easy to populate multiple candidates engaging, different, qualified experiences every year with ease — perhaps, with difficulty, given the need to exclude so many good games out.
To emphasize again, these are games that otherwise have no home at major gaming awards. Brain-teaser creators function at the challenging frontier game development, creating some of the purest expressions of gaming itself. Just like cinema stunt performers, they deserve recognition. Don't make them wait decades.
