Providing a common virtual item repository in a virtual space

(canceled)

A computer-implemented method to provide a common virtual item repository in a virtual space, the method being performed by one or more processors configured to execute computer program instructions, the method comprising:

• implementing, using one or more processors, the virtual space to determine views of the virtual space;
• and
• presenting, using one or more processors, a virtual item repository within the virtual space such that the virtual item repository is visually represented as an object at a location within the virtual space, the virtual item repository being depicted as holding a plurality of virtual items, the virtual item repository being configured to provide access by a plurality of characters to individual ones of the plurality of virtual items depicted as being held by the virtual item repository, the plurality of characters including a first character and a second character depicted within the virtual space, the plurality of virtual items including a first virtual item associated with the first character and a second virtual item associated with the second character, the first virtual item being accessible to the second character via the virtual item repository and the second virtual item being accessible to the first character via the virtual item repository.

(canceled)