hub world

plural hub worlds

1. video gamesAn area in a video game from which most or all of the game's levels are accessed.

   Peach's Castle in Super Mario 64 is an early example of a hub world.

   3 more examples

   First of all, the game is split into discrete levels joined by a hub world.

   2009, Game Informer Magazine: For Video Game Enthusiasts, page 62

   The loot system is as constant and unyielding as the endlessly respawning enemies: it's an obsessive's nirvana, leading to as much time navigating the inventory screen as the game's hub world and dungeons.

   2010, EZ Guides: The Games of the Decade

   Souls, which function as both currency and experience points, are slowly collected as the player works through a stage, and can only be spent at Nexus, the hub world that players are transported to between stages.

   2014, Tobias Winnerling, Early Modernity and Video Games, page 206

2. literatureA planet which serves as a hub.

   Otherwise, our beautiful tree might become a definite nuisance on any Hub world to which it is introduced.

   1965, John Wood Campbell, editor, Analog Science Fact/science Fiction, page 43

   2 more examples

   A hub world in the Kasna Republik, Kasnearfar was a cosmopolitan port for beings across the Four Galaxies.

   2007, Aaron Michael Fanthorpe, Genesis Project: Prelude to Destiny, volume 1, page 8

   But something was shaping up—something incomprehensible and vast, concerning the Hub Worlds, something that was apparently tangled in and directly related to tens of thousands of years of interacting histories.

   2012, Ted White, Sideslip

   Synonyms: hub, overworld