As any significant honors show approaches, one notices a demand for introducing fresh award types to recognize underappreciated efforts and delight the spirits of enthusiasts with niche passions.
A fellow writer has already made advocating for terror-themed awards. That would be fantastic. Equally deserving are strategy board titles, which is a passionate advocate's mission. Yet I need to apologize in advance when I prioritize because like all dedicated enthusiasts, I possess a compelling case supporting my request stands as crucial above others. Here's the proposal: There should be a category for puzzle games.
The Genre Classification Challenge
Classifying creative works defies precise measurement; it’s very subjective, and inevitably generate discussions resulting in unclear classifications. This explains why film award organizations steer clear of genre categories. But it is an essential concession within the realm of video games, showing incredible range they barely qualify as a single art form.
For comprehensive acknowledgment of gaming accomplishments to be recognized, and to ensure all game types to compete fairly, classification by type becomes crucial.
Current Gaming Award Categories
The major gaming awards currently feature classifications covering Action-oriented games, Adventure-action titles, Role-Playing, Fighting, Sim/Strategy, plus athletic and racing experiences. Between them, these classifications actually cover numerous genres, and you can find room for most games within them.
Not so for puzzle games. No suitable classification appears for their placement. Examine these examples from this year’s best games, each quite distinct: structural challenges of one title, the pulse-pounding block-matching from another release, and the sweetly sociological logic puzzles from additional release. Where could they possibly go among existing types? Unfortunately, nowhere.
Acknowledgment Issues
Many instances occur outstanding logic titles published annually that have no home during gaming ceremonies, except when they manage to fit classification types such as Handheld titles, VR/AR Game, or the intensely contested small studio competitions.
- An iconic brain-teaser received no recognition completely that year
- A different innovative game was excluded that year
- Well-received sorting experience got ignored that year
- Limited numbers of logic titles scraped into independent or mobile categories
Importance of Logic Titles
Frequently they represent small games, yet the craft in brain-teasers holds tremendous importance. Famous handheld logic titles rank among the most-played games in the world maintaining this status for over a decade.
The iconic tile-matching title challenges popular creative games claiming status as best-selling game of all time; it’s also in the running for best game of all time. Puzzle games are foundational within interactive entertainment, while interacting with almost every other genre.
Proposal and Rationale
Logic titles wouldn't face that issue. You could fill multiple candidates interesting, varied, worthy titles every year with ease — actually, with challenge, given the need to exclude so many good games out.
To emphasize again, these include experiences lacking appropriate categories during prominent ceremonies. Logic title developers operate at the challenging frontier interactive creation, developing some of most fundamental forms of the video game form. Comparable to film action specialists, they deserve recognition. Don't make them wait 35 years.
