So, I picked out a few games which will help me with this, and caught my eye the most, taking in visual aspects and playable content.
Alphablocks is a watch and learn game, with exciting videos and clickable content at the end of each scene which tells you what you have just seen and what they are again (Just in case you had forgotten). The nicest thing about this game is that the video's teach you in song how letters work in words and sentences. There's just over 20 pieces of footage and clickable content areas to choose from, so a child could sit there for hours listening to each musical tune and learning in a much more simple and fun way. The bad side to this game is it is just all watchable and clickable content, which means when you have watched it once, it will be really hard to watch it again, because a child has already seen it.
Boogie Beats is a flash file full of musical content which you can use the drum stick cursor to select and mash the coloured numbered beats below. Unfortunately this game is quite confusing, with all the buttons and selections they can make, making this game some what unplayable unless they select the "Help" button. I believe this game could have done better if the game shown pictures instead of numbers and text (e.g. The numbers being pictures of musical instruments.) What I liked about this game though is the amount of options of musical instruments that you can choose to play.
With this game, Bottle Tunes (Shortened down from "Invent a tune on bottles"), you can use your cursor to tap on each bottle which records it, and then you can select the option below; Click to play your song back, from there, a Kwala character will play your tune back to you exactly how you played it. I adore how it shows each name of the pitches made by each bottle, at the bottom of the bottle it self. However it seems quite unappealing and has quite dull colours and text, which could have been avoided by choosing a better colour scheme which worked but was catching to the eye. As for the text, more bubbly and eye catching writing could have been used.
Bug on a Wire is controlled by the arrow keys on your keyboard, and all you have to do is run across the electricity lines and dodge the birds standing on them, or else you will get eaten which causes a game over. I feel it's not really a children's game, as it has some sort of violence in it, but it's really fun to play when you get into it. The simplicity however, is outstanding, and all you really have to think about is dodging crows and getting as far as you can (This is calculated by the numbers at the top of the screen). There's subtle hints in the game of danger when the crows chirp as you jump over, and the music sounds like you're outside in the great outdoors.
Rasskraska is a colour in game based on Japanese anime styles. Dress up games, or colour in games, are quite popular around the internet; most based on characters from other games, manga's or anime's. This is a really fun game to play, it is like personalising your own picture into how you want it to be and how your personal thoughts react to what you see. It's simple, and just a point and click, although this game really could have done with more pages of content or more wide range of colours to choose from. This game would not appeal to boys, of course, so I guess this is a possible downside to all colour in and dress up games strung across the internet.
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