  Educational games are commonly used to motivate students and provide enhanced
learning opportunities. Apps and mobile games play an increasingly important
role in education and smartphones are part of the daily lives of most female
teenagers: Half of mobile gamers are women and 64% of women prefer smartphones
to other platforms. However, gender differences in playing behaviour and
preferences raises concerns about potential gender inequalities when games are
developed for education. In order to develop a tutorial game that suits the
female target group and provides challenging tasks to solve, girls were
involved at a very early stage of the development cycle and the idea was
developed on the basis of surveys and focus group discussions. A first
prototype of the game has been tested in a mixed-gender group to get feedback
about the learning content, the worked examples, and the whole structure of the
game. Finally, a tutorial game with six worked examples has been released in
our Luna&Cat app, a programming tool that has been designed for our female
target group in particular.
