Fashion Story (Online Game)

by Chanmalida CHHOUN

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.