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As any major prize-giving event approaches, there’s always a clamor to include of new categories to honor underappreciated efforts and fill the spirits of followers who have specialized interests.

A fellow writer has already made for a horror game category. It would be amazing. The same goes for board games, which is someone's personal cause. Yet I need to apologize in advance for pushing forward just as with other single-minded supporters, I possess a compelling case supporting my request is the most urgent and important of all. The demand is this: There should be a classification for brain-teasing titles.

Organizing Gaming Categories

Categorizing art by genre isn't exact; it remains highly personal, and inevitably generate discussions and end in fuzzy definitions. It's understandable that movie academies don’t do it. Yet it remains a necessary evil for the industry of interactive entertainment, that demonstrate such variety they hardly constitute one unified medium.

For comprehensive acknowledgment of gaming accomplishments to be recognized, and for games of all stripes to have a chance for representation, classification by type becomes crucial.

Current Gaming Award Categories

Prominent interactive entertainment events offer these genre categories for Action-oriented games, Action/Adventure, Role-Playing, Combat games, Simulation and strategy titles, and Sports/Racing games. Collectively, these six categories effectively encompass many game types, making space possible for numerous titles.

This doesn't apply to puzzle games. No suitable classification appears to put them. Consider three of this year’s best games, all very different: building puzzles in a particular game, intense tile-matching of another game, engaging interpersonal challenges from additional release. Which classification works among existing types? Unfortunately, nowhere.

Acknowledgment Issues

Many instances occur of brilliant puzzle games released every year without proper recognition at major award shows, except when they manage to fit classification types such as Mobile Game, VR/AR Game, or the extremely competitive small studio competitions.

• An iconic brain-teaser wasn’t nominated completely in 2014
• Another imaginative release received no nominations during that ceremony
• Popular arranging title was overlooked that year
• Just some puzzle games barely qualified for small studio or handheld classifications

Importance of Logic Titles

Frequently they represent compact experiences, but the art in brain-teasers carries substantial weight. Well-known matching games count as the most-played games worldwide and have been for an extended period.

The famous puzzle experience rivals popular creative games claiming status as highest-selling title ever; it’s also in the running for top gaming experience. Brain-teasers form essential building blocks to the art of video games, while interacting with almost every other genre.

The Solution and Justification

Puzzle games wouldn’t have such difficulty. You could fill five nominees interesting, varied, worthy titles each ceremony simply — actually, with challenge, since numerous excellent many worthy titles.

To emphasize again, these are games that otherwise have no home at major gaming awards. Brain-teaser creators operate at the demanding boundary interactive creation, developing some of the purest expressions of gaming itself. Comparable to cinema stunt performers, they merit acknowledgment. Let’s not keep them waiting decades.