现在，游戏玩家们可以在各种各样的Facebook游戏中从事某些商业活动，譬如开家餐厅，经营服装店等。然而单一的商店是否可以满足玩家的管理欲呢？最 近，默默无名的社交游戏开发公司Pretty Simple Games发布了Facebook游戏My Shops，玩家可以在该款游戏中打理整条商业街！

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据游戏邦了解，My Shops发布于11月中旬，目前已有月活跃用户14万。这一数据对名声不响的Pretty Simple Games公司而言是个不俗的成绩。

开始游戏后，玩家首先在自己的第一家商店——面包店中了解游戏的基本操作。游戏中的街景十分类似于Restaurant City。玩家可以左右滚动屏幕观看，建造各种新建筑。

在My Shops游戏中，玩家会遇到有各种不同需求的顾客，玩家可以根据顾客们的想法框提供各种服务，也可以由此得知商店的热销产品等信息。游戏最初，玩家的面包店可以想顾客提供普通面包和羊角面包。然而，在开始销售面包前，玩家必须通过货车订购各种商品。

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订购后的送货过程融入了计时系统，玩家需要等到送货车抵达才能开始营业。不同的货品运送的时间不同。在送货车抵达后，玩家的商店将会自动开门营业。在游戏屏幕的左下方以横条的形式显示着各种商品的库存量，和库存可支持时间。

玩家在经营商店的同时可以完成诸如升级商店，增加装饰品等游戏任务。另外，玩家也可以选择提升顾客等级。在提升某种顾客的等级后，一旦该顾客满意商店的各种服务就会在头上出现一颗红心。玩家点击红心就可以为商店赢得一个推荐，集齐一定的数量，玩家可以解锁新的顾客类型。

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游戏中偶尔会有顾客要求购买某些商店没有现货的商品。如果顾客指定的商品等级高于玩家等级，那么玩家只能等待升级后解锁这一商品。然而，如果是由于商店中没有订购这一商品，玩家则需要在商店货物售罄后在下一次的进货中订购该商品。

另外，玩家可以通过提高“美观”或增加装饰品提升商店的人气。正值节日之际，玩家可以选择各种可爱的节日装饰品将自己的商店装潢一新。或者也可以从装饰篮中选择各种花瓶，树木，街灯道具装饰自己的商店。

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当然，玩家可以在游戏中升级店铺，扩大店面以便销售更多品种的商品。另外游戏中的送货车也可提升等级，但需要玩家收集一定的建造元素。

在My Shops中，玩家要在5级之后才可以开始向开发整条商业街迈进，之后玩家可以开设宠物店，蛋糕店等各种商店。（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译，转载请注明来源：游戏邦）

While there are plenty of Facebook games that allow you to start managing a single kind of business or store (a restaurant, a clothing store, electronics store, and so on), what if you were instead given a game where you could create an entire “Shopping Street,” rather than just a single store? Pretty Simple Games will allow you to make that hypothetical scenario into a reality, with their Facebook game My Shops.

The game launched in the middle of November, and has since grown to almost 140,000 users – not bad for a game from a little-known developer, in a genre that is already quite full. If you’d like to see what it takes to run more than one business at once, then meet us behind the break for more details about this up-and-coming business management sim.

My Shops begins with a basic tutorial in your first shop – a Bakery. The game’s street view is presented much like the Street View in Restaurant City, for those that are familiar, as it is a flat image that can be scrolled through left and right to see your various buildings, or even open new ones.

Through the tutorial, you’ll learn that the game is filled with a large variety of customers, each of which has different demands represented by thought bubbles. These thought bubbles contain images of what a customer wants to help you keep track. Via these thought bubbles, you’ll be able to keep track of which items will be hot sellers, and can then order goods from the shipping menu accordingly. To start, at your Bakery you’ll meet customers that want either bread or croissants, so you’ll need to order both kinds of goods to be delivered on a delivery truck.

This is where the game’s timer comes in, as you’ll need to wait for the delivery trucks to arrive, with different travel times being available for the different items that you could purchase. You’ll need to be on-hand to accept the delivery when it does arrive (increasing the incentive for repeat returns on a daily basis), and from there, your shop will automatically go about the business of selling goods. Your total stock is represented as meters in the bottom left corner of the gameplay screen, and you’ll be able to see when a good will sell out based on how many hours that stock will last given the store’s current popularity.

With your stores supplied, you’ll be able to tackle a series of missions (upgrade your buildings, add certain decorations, and so on) or you can choose to upgrade your customers. In terms of customer upgrading, when a customer leaves your store satisfied, they will have a red heart appear above their head. Clicking on this heart earns your business a recommendation, and when enough of the same variety of customer recommend your business, you’ll be able to unlock new kinds of customers, with entirely different sets of demands.

These customers may wish to purchase items you don’t have in stock, which either means you can unlock them from the game’s store (in the case of entirely new items), or you can simply wait for your current stock of items to empty and then order more of that particular item in the next Delivery Truck.

As you go along, you can increase the popularity of your shops by increasing their “Beauty,” or adding decorations. Considering the time of year, there are some incredibly adorable Holiday decorations currently available, for those that are interested in that sort of thing. Otherwise, you can choose from decorative baskets, flower pots, street lamps, trees, bicycles and more, to make each individual building on your street look customized and unique (you’ll need to customize stores for missions, but you can do this voluntarily as well).

Of course, your buildings can also be upgraded in terms of size (allowing you to hold more goods in your stock), with starter upgrades being available for coins, so that the average user can upgrade their Starter Bakery twice without running out of their beginning stock of coins, which is appreciated. Delivery Trucks can also be upgraded, but this requires you to collect building parts.

Since the game is all about opening up additional shops, it seems odd that you won’t be able to do so without at least reaching level five. Not that this is an incredibly difficult milestone to reach in terms of gameplay, but levels do see to take a bit longer to complete than in other games of this type (that being the business-management sim). Once you start leveling up, you’ll be able to get your hands on new shops like Pet Shops, Cake Shops, and more.

All in all, though, we’re definitely pleased with what My Shops has to offer so far. If you’re willing to climb your way to level 5 and finally start unlocking additional shop locations, then we’d suggest giving this one a look. （Source：Games.com）