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As any prominent awards ceremony approaches, you'll find an outcry to include of new categories to recognize unsung work and fill the passions of enthusiasts with niche passions.

A fellow writer has already made for a horror game category. That would be fantastic. So would board games, this being a passionate advocate's mission. However, I must insist if I try to elbow in front since similar to blinkered fanatics, I have a cast-iron argument supporting my request stands as crucial and significant. This is the request: It's essential to create a classification for brain-teasing titles.

The Genre Classification Challenge

Classifying creative works isn't exact; opinions vary greatly, and inevitably start arguments resulting in unclear classifications. This explains why movie academies don’t do it. However, it represents an essential concession for the industry of interactive entertainment, that demonstrate such variety they hardly constitute a single creative category.

To recognize the complete range of interactive entertainment excellence to receive acknowledgment, and for games of all stripes to receive proper recognition, specific award classifications remain vital.

Existing Game Classification System

Prominent interactive entertainment events currently feature award types recognizing Action, Adventure-action titles, Role-Playing, Fighting, Sim/Strategy, plus athletic and racing experiences. Together, these award types effectively encompass a lot of ground, and you can find room accommodating various experiences.

Different situation exists for puzzle games. There’s simply nowhere to put them. Think about these outstanding current releases, all very different: structural challenges of one title, the pulse-pounding block-matching of another game, thought-provoking social scenarios in another game. Where could they possibly go between these six categories? Nowhere, that’s where.

The Representation Problem

Numerous examples exist outstanding logic titles published annually that have no home during gaming ceremonies, except when they manage to fit award groups including Mobile Game, VR/AR Game, or the intensely contested small studio competitions.

• One classic puzzle game received no recognition 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 barely qualified for niche award types

Importance of Logic Titles

Commonly they're modest productions, but the art in brain-teasers is of massive significance. Iconic mobile puzzle games rank among the most-played games worldwide continuing this trend for an extended period.

The iconic tile-matching title challenges well-known building titles claiming status as highest-selling title ever; it additionally competes for top gaming experience. Brain-teasers form essential building blocks for gaming as medium, while interacting with diverse game types.

Proposal and Rationale

Logic titles wouldn't face this problem. One could readily select a field of five engaging, different, qualified experiences each ceremony simply — perhaps, with difficulty, given the need to exclude so many good games out.

To emphasize again, these are games without proper classification at major gaming awards. Logic title developers are working at the challenging frontier of video game design, developing some of essential manifestations within interactive entertainment. Just like movie stunt professionals, they merit acknowledgment. Let’s not keep them waiting generations.