Whenever a significant prize-giving event approaches, you'll find a demand for the addition additional classifications to honor underappreciated efforts and fill the hearts of fans who have specialized interests.
My colleague has already made advocating for terror-themed awards. That would be fantastic. The same goes for strategy board titles, this being a passionate advocate's mission. However, I must insist if I try to elbow in front since similar to blinkered fanatics, I possess a compelling case for why my demand is the most urgent and important of all. The demand is this: It's essential to create a classification for brain-teasing titles.
Categorizing Game Types
Classifying creative works defies precise measurement; it remains highly personal, and inevitably start arguments and end in fuzzy definitions. It's understandable that film award organizations avoid this approach. Yet it remains an unavoidable compromise within the realm of gaming, showing incredible range they barely qualify one unified medium.
For the full spectrum of gaming accomplishments to gain proper attention, while allowing diverse titles to compete fairly, genre categories are essential.
Present Award Structure
The major gaming awards presently include classifications covering Action-oriented games, Action/Adventure, Role-Playing, Fighting, Sim/Strategy, plus athletic and racing experiences. Collectively, these award types effectively encompass many game types, making space possible for numerous titles.
Different situation exists for logic-based experiences. No appropriate category exists to accommodate them. Consider three of this year’s best games, each quite distinct: building puzzles of one title, intense tile-matching in a different title, and the sweetly sociological logic puzzles of a third title. Which classification works within current classifications? Unfortunately, nowhere.
Acknowledgment Issues
There are dozens of brilliant puzzle games released every year without proper recognition during gaming ceremonies, except when they manage to fit classification types such as Mobile Game, VR/AR Game, or the extremely competitive small studio competitions.
- One classic puzzle game wasn’t nominated for anything in 2014
- Another creative title was excluded that year
- Well-received sorting experience got ignored recently
- Only a few brain-teasers barely qualified for independent or mobile categories
Value of Brain-Teasers
Commonly they're modest productions, however the design of the puzzle game carries substantial weight. Famous handheld logic titles stand as most popular titles worldwide maintaining this status for an extended period.
The legendary block-stacking game competes with well-known building titles claiming status as most purchased experience; it also contends for best game of all time. Brain-teasers form essential building blocks for gaming as medium, and engaging across multiple categories.
The Solution and Justification
Brain-teasers wouldn't encounter such difficulty. You could fill five nominees engaging, different, qualified experiences every year with ease — or rather, with difficulty, because you’d have to leave many worthy titles.
To emphasize again, these are games without proper classification during prominent ceremonies. Puzzle game makers are working at the demanding boundary interactive creation, creating some of most fundamental forms of gaming itself. Comparable to movie stunt professionals, they warrant appreciation. We shouldn't delay decades.
