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Each time a major awards ceremony draws close, you'll find an outcry to include of new categories to acknowledge overlooked contributions and fill the spirits of enthusiasts dedicated to specific genres.

My colleague has already made for a horror game category. It would be amazing. Equally deserving are board games, this being someone's personal cause. However, I must insist when I prioritize because like all single-minded supporters, I have a cast-iron argument supporting my request is the most urgent and important of all. The demand is this: We need a category for puzzle games.

Categorizing Game Types

Classifying creative works isn't exact; opinions vary greatly, and typically spark debates concluding with vague boundaries. This explains why movie academies avoid this approach. But it is a necessary evil within the realm of interactive entertainment, that demonstrate such variety they hardly constitute a single creative category.

For the full spectrum of interactive entertainment excellence to be recognized, and for games of all stripes to compete fairly, specific award classifications remain vital.

Existing Game Classification System

The major gaming awards offer these classifications covering Action, Adventure-action titles, Role-Playing, Combat games, Sim/Strategy, plus athletic and racing experiences. Together, these award types successfully include many game types, making space possible for numerous titles.

This doesn't apply to puzzle games. No appropriate category exists to accommodate them. Think about these outstanding current releases, showing diverse approaches: building puzzles from a specific release, the pulse-pounding block-matching of another game, engaging interpersonal challenges from additional release. Which classification works among existing types? Unfortunately, nowhere.

Acknowledgment Issues

Many instances occur outstanding logic titles released every year lacking appropriate categories in entertainment awards, except when they manage to fit award groups including Mobile Game, Virtual reality experiences, or the extremely competitive Indie races.

• An iconic brain-teaser wasn’t nominated in any category that year
• Another creative title was excluded that year
• Popular arranging title got ignored that year
• Just some logic titles barely qualified for niche award types

Significance of Puzzle Games

Commonly they're small games, but the art behind logic titles holds tremendous importance. Iconic mobile puzzle games rank among most popular titles in the world continuing this trend for many years.

The famous puzzle experience rivals famous sandbox experiences claiming status as best-selling game of all time; it additionally competes for best game of all time. Puzzle games are foundational within interactive entertainment, and engaging with diverse game types.

Proposal and Rationale

Logic titles wouldn't face such difficulty. One could readily select multiple candidates interesting, varied, worthy titles each ceremony simply — perhaps, with difficulty, given the need to exclude so many good games out.

Restating the point, these are games that otherwise have no home during prominent ceremonies. Puzzle game makers are working at the challenging frontier interactive creation, producing among the purest expressions of the video game form. Similar to movie stunt professionals, they warrant appreciation. Don't make them wait 35 years.