by Chanmalida CHHOUN
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| Photo taken from www.teamlava.com |
Recently, the advancement of new
technologies, especially in the field of internet, hae made the online games
become conveniently accessible for the internet users, particularly amongst the
young generation. Interestingly, not just computers or laptops allow the users
to access those games, but the smart phones have played an important role to
promote the attractiveness of the games, and more importantly smart phones have
helped the users get in touch in wherever and whenever they want. In addition, the themes of those games are
focused on the contemporary lifestyle, especially for the teenager. Those
themes include: foods, clothes, fashions, just to name a few. As a result, there
are many games that the users can play and follow up on, namely: Restaurant
Story, Bakery Story, Fashion Story, Pet Shop Story, Farm Story, City Story, Zoo
Story, Nightclub Story, Treasure Story, Empire Story, I Monsters, Vampires
Live, Racing Live, Kingdoms Live, World War, Zombies Live, Ninjas Live, and
Pets Live.
The fashion story could be used as
an example to illustrate the popularity of the online games, and demonstrate
how the online games are applicable in the smart phone programs. Currently, the
fashion story has ranked among the top ten of the most popular games. The
fashion storyis targeting the women users, especially young girls, who like
designing the modern clothes and lifestyle and experiencing running their own
businesses in the fashion world.
So, how this game application work
in the smart phone and how to play? The fashion story gamecan be run on both
android system and ISO of IPhone’s system. It is the stylish new game which
invented by TeamLavathat hit virtual world "Story" series. In this
game, the users have to own a shop andchoose clothes or stock which is the very
latest fashions and designs, to attract their online followers (representing
the customers). Similarly the real world, the players should layout their
stores to the fashion standard, which means some facilities are necessarily,
namely the changing rooms/fit rooms and attractive logo and so on. The
customers are always on the sidewalk waiting for the doors to the hot new
clothing boutique to open. In order to unlock trendy designer clothes lines and
innovative stylish accessories, the users have to place them in the store to
draw trendsetting customers in from far and wide. The playerswill get a coin or
gift when they visit their friends' shop and like the items in their stores to
give them a free gift. Furthermore, if the players keep order the same item until
it reaches level three, they will get a gem which they can save to buy the cool
shop decoration. However the players can buy the gems by their real money or
use your credit card via online if they prefer. Moreover, this game is always
available for updates with new clothing, accessories, and shop decorations
every week.
Why
player still keep playing this game? In brief, this online game is a very
popular game for teenagers and especially among girls. The fashion game allows
them to design their desired cloths and shops, and keep
them up to date on the new arrivals. More interestingly, by playing this kind
of game, it does helps the players reduce their stress, gain new friendships
and gain lots of experiences of selling clothes and own a shop.
