ABSTRACT
The growing market for electronic games reaches millions of people
every day. Although women represent approximately half of
users in this sector, the gaming world is still seen predominantly
as male. This situation happens both in digital game design and in
careers concerning game development. The gaming market slowly
takes women into account but still has a game design grounded on
stereotyped gender characteristics. This work describes a Systematic
Literature Review (SLR) to identify characteristics of digital
games suitable for female audiences, seek motivations for the girls´
involvement in the field of Computing through digital games, and
research information about games used for motivating women to
become interested in Computing. We selected twenty-one relevant
studies related to the objective of thiswork. The results obtained can
be helpful for the development of new games focused on women,
indirectly contributing to the increased interest of the female public
in the field of Computing.