Whenever a significant awards ceremony nears, you'll find an outcry to include of new categories to acknowledge overlooked contributions and satisfy the hearts of followers with niche passions.
A fellow writer has already made for a horror game category. That would be fantastic. The same goes for board games, which is a dedicated supporter's campaign. But they will have to forgive me for pushing forward because like all dedicated enthusiasts, I have a cast-iron argument backing this proposal is the most urgent and significant. Here's the proposal: There should be a category for puzzle games.
Organizing Gaming Categories
Organizing artistic expressions is not a science; opinions vary greatly, and inevitably spark debates concluding with vague boundaries. It's understandable that cinema institutions steer clear of genre categories. But it is an essential concession within the realm of interactive entertainment, which are so diverse they hardly constitute one unified medium.
For the full spectrum of achievement in video games to gain proper attention, and for games of all stripes to receive proper recognition, classification by type becomes crucial.
Current Gaming Award Categories
The major gaming awards presently include classifications covering Action, Action/Adventure, Role-Playing, Combat games, Simulation and strategy titles, plus athletic and racing experiences. Collectively, these award types successfully include a lot of ground, allowing placement accommodating various experiences.
Different situation exists for puzzle games. No appropriate category exists to put them. Think about these outstanding current releases, each quite distinct: building puzzles in a particular game, fast-paced pattern recognition in a different title, and the sweetly sociological logic puzzles from additional release. What category would fit them among existing types? Unfortunately, nowhere.
Acknowledgment Issues
Many instances occur outstanding logic titles launched regularly lacking appropriate categories in entertainment awards, except when they manage to fit classification types such as Handheld titles, Virtual reality experiences, and the highly challenging small studio competitions.
- One classic puzzle game got overlooked for anything during that awards season
- A different innovative game was excluded in 2019
- A beloved organization game was overlooked in 2021
- Just some brain-teasers barely qualified for niche award types
Value of Brain-Teasers
Commonly they're modest productions, however the design of the puzzle game holds tremendous importance. Iconic mobile puzzle games stand as most engaged experiences globally and have been for many years.
The famous puzzle experience challenges popular creative games claiming status as best-selling game of all time; it also contends for top gaming experience. Brain-teasers form essential building blocks to the art of video games, while interacting with almost every other genre.
Recommendation and Reasoning
Puzzle games wouldn’t have this problem. One could readily select multiple candidates interesting, varied, worthy titles every year with ease — perhaps, with difficulty, because you’d have to leave so many good games out.
Restating the point, these are games without proper classification in important events. Puzzle game makers are working at the demanding boundary interactive creation, developing some of most fundamental forms of gaming itself. Comparable to movie stunt professionals, they warrant appreciation. We shouldn't delay generations.
