Whenever a prominent honors show approaches, one notices an outcry for the addition fresh award types to recognize overlooked contributions and fill the hearts of enthusiasts who have specialized interests.
A fellow writer has already made for a horror game category. That would be fantastic. Equally deserving are board games, representing a passionate advocate's mission. But they will have to forgive me when I prioritize because like all single-minded supporters, I have a cast-iron argument backing this proposal remains most pressing and important of all. Here's the proposal: We need a classification for brain-teasing titles.
Organizing Gaming Categories
Organizing artistic expressions isn't exact; it’s very subjective, and inevitably spark debates and end in fuzzy definitions. This explains why cinema institutions avoid this approach. Yet it remains a necessary evil in the world of interactive entertainment, showing incredible range they barely qualify one unified medium.
For the full spectrum of gaming accomplishments to receive acknowledgment, and to ensure all game types to receive proper recognition, classification by type becomes crucial.
Existing Game Classification System
Leading game ceremonies presently include genre categories for Action-oriented games, Action/Adventure, RPG experiences, Combat games, Sim/Strategy, and Sports/Racing games. Together, these classifications effectively encompass many game types, and you can find room for numerous titles.
This doesn't apply to logic-based experiences. No suitable classification appears to put them. Think about these this year’s best games, all very different: structural challenges from a specific release, the pulse-pounding block-matching from another release, thought-provoking social scenarios in another game. Where could they possibly go between these six categories? Unfortunately, nowhere.
The Representation Problem
Many instances occur of brilliant puzzle games published annually without proper recognition in entertainment awards, unless they happen to qualify classification types such as Mobile Game, VR/AR Game, or the extremely competitive independent game categories.
- An iconic brain-teaser wasn’t nominated in any category that year
- A different innovative game received no nominations that year
- Well-received sorting experience got ignored recently
- Only a few logic titles barely qualified for independent or mobile categories
Value of Brain-Teasers
Frequently they represent compact experiences, but the art behind logic titles carries substantial weight. Iconic mobile puzzle games stand as the most-played games globally maintaining this status for over a decade.
The legendary block-stacking game rivals popular creative games claiming status as best-selling game of all time; it additionally competes for best game of all time. Brain-teasers form essential building blocks to the art of video games, and they are in conversation with almost every other genre.
Proposal and Rationale
Brain-teasers wouldn't encounter that issue. One could readily select five nominees with fascinating, diverse, deserving games annually without trouble — actually, with challenge, given the need to exclude numerous deserving experiences.
And to reiterate, these include experiences that otherwise have no home during prominent ceremonies. Logic title developers operate at the demanding boundary interactive creation, creating some of essential manifestations of the video game form. Just like film action specialists, they deserve recognition. We shouldn't delay decades.
