Whenever a significant prize-giving event approaches, you'll find an outcry to include of new categories to recognize unsung work and fill the hearts of enthusiasts with niche passions.
My colleague made the case supporting a scary games classification. It would be amazing. So would tabletop games, this being a dedicated supporter's campaign. Yet I need to apologize in advance for pushing forward since similar to single-minded supporters, there's a strong justification supporting my request is the most urgent and important of all. Here's the proposal: It's essential to create a classification for brain-teasing titles.
Organizing Gaming Categories
Categorizing art by genre defies precise measurement; it remains highly personal, and typically generate discussions concluding with vague boundaries. There’s a reason film award organizations don’t do it. But it is a necessary evil in the world of gaming, that demonstrate such variety it's challenging to consider them as a single art form.
For comprehensive acknowledgment of interactive entertainment excellence to gain proper attention, and to ensure all game types to have a chance for representation, classification by type becomes crucial.
Present Award Structure
The major gaming awards presently include classifications covering Action, Adventure-action titles, Role-Playing, Fighting, Simulation and strategy titles, plus athletic and racing experiences. Between them, these award types effectively encompass a lot of ground, allowing placement for numerous titles.
Different situation exists for brain-teasing titles. There’s simply nowhere to accommodate them. Think about these outstanding current releases, each quite distinct: the architectural riddles of one title, intense tile-matching of another game, thought-provoking social scenarios in another game. Where could they possibly go within current classifications? Simply put, no category fits.
The Representation Problem
There are dozens outstanding logic titles released every year without proper recognition in entertainment awards, if they accidentally match award groups including Mobile Game, VR/AR Game, and the highly challenging Indie races.
- A renowned logic title received no recognition for anything that year
- A different innovative game received no nominations in 2019
- Popular arranging title was overlooked in 2021
- Just some puzzle games scraped into niche award types
Importance of Logic Titles
Commonly they're small games, however the design behind logic titles holds tremendous importance. Well-known matching games count as most engaged experiences globally continuing this trend for many years.
The iconic tile-matching title challenges popular creative games competing to become highest-selling title ever; it also contends as greatest title ever. Logic titles represent cornerstones to the art of video games, and they are in conversation across multiple categories.
Proposal and Rationale
Puzzle games wouldn’t have this problem. You could fill multiple candidates engaging, different, qualified experiences every year with ease — perhaps, with difficulty, given the need to exclude so many good games out.
Restating the point, these include experiences without proper classification in important events. Brain-teaser creators are working at the hard edge of video game design, producing among essential manifestations of gaming itself. Comparable to movie stunt professionals, they warrant appreciation. Let’s not keep them waiting decades.
