Whenever a significant prize-giving event approaches, one notices an outcry to include of new categories to recognize overlooked contributions and satisfy the spirits of followers who have specialized interests.
My colleague has already made supporting a scary games classification. That would be fantastic. So would tabletop games, this being a dedicated supporter's campaign. However, I must insist for pushing forward because like all single-minded supporters, I possess a compelling case for why my demand stands as crucial and important of all. The demand is this: There should be a classification for brain-teasing titles.
Categorizing Game Types
Classifying creative works is not a science; it remains highly personal, and it will always generate discussions and end in fuzzy definitions. This explains why movie academies avoid this approach. However, it represents a necessary evil in the world of gaming, which are so diverse they barely qualify as a single art form.
For comprehensive acknowledgment of gaming accomplishments to be recognized, and for games of all stripes to have a chance for representation, genre categories are essential.
Current Gaming Award Categories
The major gaming awards offer these award types recognizing Action, Adventure-action titles, Role-Playing, Combat games, Simulation and strategy titles, plus athletic and racing experiences. Between them, these six categories actually cover many game types, and you can find room for most games within them.
This doesn't apply to logic-based experiences. There’s simply nowhere to put them. Think about these this year’s best games, showing diverse approaches: the architectural riddles in a particular game, the pulse-pounding block-matching in a different title, and the sweetly sociological logic puzzles in another game. Where could they possibly go within current classifications? Simply put, no category fits.
The Representation Problem
Many instances occur outstanding logic titles published annually that have no home in entertainment awards, except when they manage to fit classification types such as Mobile Game, Virtual reality experiences, or the intensely contested independent game categories.
- An iconic brain-teaser got overlooked for anything in 2014
- A different innovative game received no nominations that year
- Popular arranging title was overlooked that year
- Only a few puzzle games barely qualified for small studio or handheld classifications
Value of Brain-Teasers
These are often compact experiences, however the design behind logic titles is of massive significance. Famous handheld logic titles rank among most engaged experiences worldwide maintaining this status for over a decade.
The famous puzzle experience rivals well-known building titles competing to become best-selling game of all time; it also contends for best game of all time. Logic titles represent cornerstones for gaming as medium, while interacting with diverse game types.
The Solution and Justification
Logic titles wouldn't face such difficulty. You could fill five nominees with fascinating, diverse, deserving games annually without trouble — actually, with challenge, given the need to exclude so many good games out.
Restating the point, these include experiences that otherwise have no home in important events. Logic title developers function at the challenging frontier interactive creation, producing among essential manifestations within interactive entertainment. Just like film action specialists, they merit acknowledgment. We shouldn't delay generations.
