Whenever a major awards ceremony nears, there’s always an outcry for introducing fresh award types to recognize unsung work and satisfy the hearts of followers who have specialized interests.
A fellow writer previously argued advocating for terror-themed awards. That would rule. The same goes for board games, representing someone's personal cause. But they will have to forgive me for pushing forward just as with other blinkered fanatics, there's a strong justification for why my demand is the most urgent and important of all. Here's the proposal: There should be a classification for brain-teasing titles.
Categorizing Game Types
Categorizing art by genre defies precise measurement; opinions vary greatly, and typically spark debates concluding with vague boundaries. There’s a reason cinema institutions steer clear of genre categories. Yet it remains a necessary evil for the industry of interactive entertainment, showing incredible range it's challenging to consider them as a single art form.
For comprehensive acknowledgment of interactive entertainment excellence to gain proper attention, while allowing diverse titles to receive proper recognition, classification by type becomes crucial.
Current Gaming Award Categories
Prominent interactive entertainment events offer these award types recognizing Action, Adventure-action titles, Role-Playing, Combat games, Simulation and strategy titles, plus athletic and racing experiences. Collectively, these classifications successfully include numerous genres, and you can find room accommodating various experiences.
Not so for logic-based experiences. No suitable classification appears to accommodate them. Examine these examples from outstanding current releases, each quite distinct: building puzzles of one title, fast-paced pattern recognition from another release, engaging interpersonal challenges of a third title. Which classification works among existing types? Unfortunately, nowhere.
The Representation Problem
Numerous examples exist outstanding logic titles launched regularly lacking appropriate categories in entertainment awards, except when they manage to fit classification types such as Mobile Game, VR/AR Game, and the highly challenging Indie races.
- A renowned logic title wasn’t nominated for anything in 2014
- Another creative title missed out that year
- A beloved organization game received no acknowledgment that year
- Limited numbers of logic titles managed to sneak into independent or mobile categories
Value of Brain-Teasers
Commonly they're small games, however the design in brain-teasers carries substantial weight. Iconic mobile puzzle games stand as the most-played games globally continuing this trend for over a decade.
The iconic tile-matching title rivals famous sandbox experiences competing to become most purchased experience; it also contends for top gaming experience. Logic titles represent cornerstones for gaming as medium, while interacting across multiple categories.
The Solution and Justification
Puzzle games wouldn’t have that issue. You could fill five nominees engaging, different, qualified experiences annually without trouble — or rather, with difficulty, given the need to exclude many worthy titles.
And to reiterate, these include experiences lacking appropriate categories in important events. Brain-teaser creators function at the demanding boundary interactive creation, creating some of most fundamental forms of the video game form. Comparable to film action specialists, they warrant appreciation. Don't make them wait decades.
