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In education field, the lack of motivation among learners is one of the biggest problems faced by the educational system. In this sense, researchers and educational specialists have been use educational digital games as an alternative. However, despite the significant possibilities when using games for educational purposes, in the literature only a few researchers have been investigating about how to develop educational game capable of foster motivation and also maintain the learner initial motivation. Thus, this paper aims to propose a categorization for the learners’ motivation, in order to be useful for developers during the design of these games. In order to achieve it, this paper is based on a narrative literature review that covers four well-know studies about motivation and their relationship. As a result, we propose a categorization of motivation that represents to be a useful tool for the design of educational games, moreover it is useful to research motivation with learners.