Reseaching educational games for children

While working on my education game, I had a look into what kinds of education games are made for young children. Many of them use well known childrens characters (eg winnie the pooh or the penguins form madagascar) to capture the interest of the child. The games alos include lots of bright colours and child friendly images (lots of round friendly shapes, never harsh shap shapes). One of these brands of education games is Leap frog which is designed as a hand held console game in which a child can use a stylis to interact with the pictures.

This shows that education games are designed to captures the child's attention while trying to make learning as fun as possible (or even disguise learning as a game).