Tetris Wouldn't Succeed at The Game Awards — A New Category Might Solve This
Whenever a prominent prize-giving event approaches, you'll find a clamor for introducing of new categories to recognize underappreciated efforts and satisfy the spirits of fans dedicated to specific genres.
A fellow writer has already made advocating for terror-themed awards. That would rule. Equally deserving are board games, representing a passionate advocate's mission. Yet I need to apologize in advance when I prioritize because like all blinkered fanatics, I have a cast-iron argument backing this proposal is the most urgent and important of all. The demand is this: We need a classification for brain-teasing titles.
The Genre Classification Challenge
Classifying creative works is not a science; it’s very subjective, and it will always generate discussions resulting in unclear classifications. This explains why cinema institutions avoid this approach. However, it represents an essential concession in the world of gaming, showing incredible range they hardly constitute as a single art form.
For the full spectrum of interactive entertainment excellence to gain proper attention, while allowing diverse titles to receive proper recognition, classification by type becomes crucial.
Existing Game Classification System
The major gaming awards currently feature award types recognizing Action, Adventure-action titles, Role-Playing, Combat games, Sim/Strategy, and Sports/Racing games. Between them, these six categories successfully include a lot of ground, and you can find room for numerous titles.
Different situation exists for puzzle games. No suitable classification appears for their placement. Examine these examples from outstanding current releases, all very different: structural challenges in a particular game, the pulse-pounding block-matching from another release, and the sweetly sociological logic puzzles from additional release. Which classification works within current classifications? Simply put, no category fits.
Acknowledgment Issues
Numerous examples exist outstanding logic titles published annually lacking appropriate categories during gaming ceremonies, except when they manage to fit for categories like Mobile Game, VR/AR Game, and the highly challenging independent game categories.
- A renowned logic title received no recognition for anything that year
- Another imaginative release was excluded that year
- Well-received sorting experience got ignored that year
- Only a few puzzle games barely qualified for independent or mobile categories
Importance of Logic Titles
These are often small games, but the art of the puzzle game holds tremendous importance. Famous handheld logic titles count as the most-played games globally maintaining this status for over a decade.
The legendary block-stacking game competes with famous sandbox experiences competing to become 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 engaging across multiple categories.
Proposal and Rationale
Brain-teasers wouldn't encounter that issue. One could readily select multiple candidates engaging, different, qualified experiences every year with ease — actually, with challenge, since numerous excellent so many good games out.
To emphasize again, these are games lacking appropriate categories during prominent ceremonies. Logic title developers operate at the demanding boundary interactive creation, producing among the purest expressions within interactive entertainment. Similar to movie stunt professionals, they warrant appreciation. We shouldn't delay decades.
