As any major honors show draws close, you'll find a clamor to include additional classifications to honor unsung work and satisfy the spirits of fans who have specialized interests.
A fellow writer has already made for a horror game category. That would rule. The same goes for strategy board titles, this being a dedicated supporter's campaign. Yet I need to apologize in advance if I try to elbow in front since similar to dedicated enthusiasts, I possess a compelling case supporting my request remains most pressing and significant. This is the request: We need a category for puzzle games.
Categorizing Game Types
Organizing artistic expressions is not a science; opinions vary greatly, and inevitably generate discussions and end in fuzzy definitions. This explains why film award organizations steer clear of genre categories. But it is a necessary evil in the world of interactive entertainment, showing incredible range they barely qualify one unified medium.
For comprehensive acknowledgment of achievement in video games to be recognized, and to ensure all game types to receive proper recognition, specific award classifications remain vital.
Current Gaming Award Categories
Prominent interactive entertainment events offer these award types recognizing Action, Adventure-action titles, RPG experiences, Combat games, Simulation and strategy titles, and Sports/Racing games. Together, these classifications effectively encompass many game types, making space possible for numerous titles.
Different situation exists for logic-based experiences. No appropriate category exists to put them. Consider three of outstanding current releases, each quite distinct: structural challenges from a specific release, intense tile-matching of another game, thought-provoking social scenarios from additional release. What category would fit them between these six categories? Unfortunately, nowhere.
The Representation Problem
Many instances occur excellent brain-teasers released every year lacking appropriate categories in entertainment awards, unless they happen to qualify for categories like Mobile Game, Virtual reality experiences, or the extremely competitive Indie races.
- One classic puzzle game received no recognition in any category in 2014
- Another creative title was excluded that year
- Popular arranging title received no acknowledgment that year
- Limited numbers of puzzle games managed to sneak into niche award types
Significance of Puzzle Games
Commonly they're small games, yet the craft of the puzzle game is of massive significance. Iconic mobile puzzle games rank among most engaged experiences worldwide and have been for many years.
The iconic tile-matching title competes with popular creative games for the title of highest-selling title ever; it additionally competes for best game of all time. Logic titles represent cornerstones within interactive entertainment, and engaging across multiple categories.
Recommendation and Reasoning
Puzzle games wouldn’t have this problem. It would be easy to populate multiple candidates with fascinating, diverse, deserving games annually without trouble — actually, with challenge, given the need to exclude numerous deserving experiences.
Restating the point, these include experiences without proper classification during prominent ceremonies. Puzzle game makers function at the hard edge of video game design, producing among the purest expressions of the video game form. Just like cinema stunt performers, they merit acknowledgment. Let’s not keep them waiting 35 years.
