World of Warcraft’s latest content patch provided players with Guild Banks, a feature long sought after by players. Interestingly enough this new common space has already been appropriated for new forms of emergent play.

WoW Insider  has posted about players using the Guild Bank space for a checkers board, and stated that it is a shame that each column is only 7 cells deep. If there were 8, Chess would be a simple extension.

Connect 4, Tic-Tac-Toe, and even Pictionary are are playable in this space. Reversi is as well, but I can’t imagine would would have the patience to keep changing all those pieces.

I need to check out the new version of the WoW Add-On API to see how this shiny new space can be used for appropriative gaming within Azeroth as I mentioned in my thesis: Pervasive Game Are Not A Genre! (They are a sub-genre).

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