Whenever a significant prize-giving event draws close, there’s always a demand to include additional classifications to honor overlooked contributions and satisfy the hearts of fans dedicated to specific genres.
Another commentator has already made for a horror game category. That would be fantastic. Equally deserving are tabletop games, this being a dedicated supporter's campaign. However, I must insist for pushing forward since similar to blinkered fanatics, I possess a compelling case for why my demand is the most urgent and significant. Here's the proposal: It's essential to create a classification for brain-teasing titles.
Categorizing Game Types
Organizing artistic expressions isn't exact; it’s very subjective, and typically start arguments resulting in unclear classifications. This explains why film award organizations don’t do it. But it is an essential concession within the realm of interactive entertainment, that demonstrate such variety they hardly constitute a single creative category.
To recognize the complete range of interactive entertainment excellence to gain proper attention, and for games of all stripes to compete fairly, classification by type becomes crucial.
Present Award Structure
Leading game ceremonies currently feature classifications covering Action, Action/Adventure, Role-Playing, Fighting, Sim/Strategy, plus athletic and racing experiences. Collectively, these award types successfully include a lot of ground, making space possible accommodating various experiences.
This doesn't apply to logic-based experiences. No suitable classification appears to accommodate them. Think about these recent excellent titles, showing diverse approaches: the architectural riddles in a particular game, intense tile-matching from another release, and the sweetly sociological logic puzzles in another game. Where could they possibly go between these six categories? Simply put, no category fits.
The Representation Problem
Numerous examples exist excellent brain-teasers released every year without proper recognition in entertainment awards, unless they happen to qualify award groups including Handheld titles, VR/AR Game, and the highly challenging independent game categories.
- An iconic brain-teaser received no recognition for anything that year
- Another creative title was excluded in 2019
- Well-received sorting experience was overlooked that year
- Just some brain-teasers barely qualified for niche award types
Value of Brain-Teasers
Commonly they're compact experiences, but the art behind logic titles carries substantial weight. Iconic mobile puzzle games count as most engaged experiences worldwide and have been for many years.
The legendary block-stacking game challenges popular creative games for the title of highest-selling title ever; it’s also in the running as greatest title ever. Brain-teasers form essential building blocks within interactive entertainment, while interacting with almost every other genre.
Proposal and Rationale
Logic titles wouldn't face such difficulty. It would be easy to populate a field of five interesting, varied, worthy titles every year with ease — actually, with challenge, given the need to exclude many worthy titles.
To emphasize again, these include experiences lacking appropriate categories at major gaming awards. Brain-teaser creators operate at the hard edge of video game design, developing some of the purest expressions within interactive entertainment. Just like film action specialists, they deserve recognition. We shouldn't delay 35 years.
