Whenever a prominent awards ceremony approaches, one notices an outcry for the addition fresh award types to recognize underappreciated efforts and fill the passions of enthusiasts with niche passions.
Another commentator made the case advocating for terror-themed awards. That would rule. Equally deserving are strategy board titles, representing someone's personal cause. However, I must insist for pushing forward just as with other single-minded supporters, there's a strong justification for why my demand is the most urgent and important of all. The demand is this: We need a classification for brain-teasing titles.
Organizing Gaming Categories
Organizing artistic expressions defies precise measurement; opinions vary greatly, and typically start arguments resulting in unclear classifications. It's understandable that cinema institutions avoid this approach. But it is a necessary evil in the world of gaming, which are so diverse they barely qualify as a single art form.
For the full spectrum of interactive entertainment excellence to receive acknowledgment, while allowing diverse titles to receive proper recognition, genre categories are essential.
Current Gaming Award Categories
Prominent interactive entertainment events currently feature award types recognizing Action-oriented games, Adventure-action titles, Role-Playing, Combat games, Simulation and strategy titles, and Sports/Racing games. Together, these classifications effectively encompass many game types, and you can find room for most games within them.
This doesn't apply to brain-teasing titles. No suitable classification appears to accommodate them. Consider three of this year’s best games, each quite distinct: building puzzles in a particular game, intense tile-matching in a different title, engaging interpersonal challenges of a third title. Where could they possibly go between these six categories? Simply put, no category fits.
Acknowledgment Issues
Many instances occur outstanding logic titles published annually lacking appropriate categories at major award shows, except when they manage to fit classification types such as Handheld titles, VR/AR Game, or the extremely competitive small studio competitions.
- An iconic brain-teaser wasn’t nominated in any category in 2014
- A different innovative game received no nominations that year
- Well-received sorting experience received no acknowledgment in 2021
- Limited numbers of logic titles managed to sneak into independent or mobile categories
Value of Brain-Teasers
Commonly they're compact experiences, but the art in brain-teasers is of massive significance. Iconic mobile puzzle games rank among the most-played games in the world continuing this trend for many years.
The legendary block-stacking game competes with well-known building titles competing to become best-selling game of all time; it also contends as greatest title ever. Brain-teasers form essential building blocks for gaming as medium, while interacting across multiple categories.
The Solution and Justification
Brain-teasers wouldn't encounter such difficulty. You could fill a field of five interesting, varied, worthy titles every year with ease — or rather, with difficulty, because you’d have to leave many worthy titles.
To emphasize again, these include experiences lacking appropriate categories in important events. Logic title developers are working at the hard edge interactive creation, developing some of the purest expressions within interactive entertainment. Just like film action specialists, they warrant appreciation. We shouldn't delay decades.
