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What is a home hub?
It is the screen between sessions, where the player chooses the next match and checks currencies or events.
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A home hub is the screen between sessions. Strong ones make the next match obvious, keep currency visible, and tuck shops, events, and profile into the edges.
What repeats
- One Play or Attack action that is larger than the surrounding icons.
- Currencies in a bar, not buried in a menu.
- Modes and events as tiles or side buttons, not as the main action.
What varies
- 8 Ball Pool and Clash of Clans build a dashboard of modes, upgrades, and shops.
- Fishdom and Domino Dreams use the place itself, an aquarium or a village, as the hub.
Questions
How do Clash of Clans and Chants of Sennaar differ?
Clash of Clans fills the village with upgrades, Attack, and resource counters. Chants of Sennaar leaves the plaza almost empty.
How should a designer use these references?
Find the one action that starts play, and notice what is allowed to compete with it.
Examples from shipping games
More Home stills
8 Ball Pool™
Profile, currency, an event countdown, and mode tiles for 1v1 and tournament.
Clash of Clans
The village is the hub. Suggested upgrades sit beside Attack and Shop, with gold and elixir in the HUD.
Fishdom
The aquarium is home. Play level 2 is a green button, with hearts, coins, and Store around it.
Domino Dreams
A village square stands in for a menu. Characters occupy the space the player returns to.
Chants of Sennaar
A plaza with almost no chrome: a few circular icons and the place itself.
Fruit Ninja
Classic, Zen, Arcade, Event, and Multiplayer as circles. The hub is the mode list.
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