Front-end globe menu: Marc Cox's Workshop creator profile

About this game

Developer: Frontier Developments · Publisher: Frontier Developments · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Stylized 3D · Screen type: Encyclopedia / Codex

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What to study

Planet Coaster's front end is a planet: the main menu wraps its panels around a pale globe, and this frame, caught a beat after the trailer's 'SHARE' title card clears, shows the menu doing community work. The Steam Workshop is not a web page bolted on afterwards; it is a panel of the menu itself, with a search field, icon tabs and a Featured Creator list whose rows are people (Flabaliki, James Taylor, Kukamonda), each badged with a gold crown. Selecting one opens their profile as a card beside their full-body guest avatar: Marc Cox, 'Friend / Away', with his Trending Uploads as two blueprint cards, Fairytale House and Windmill, rated in stars and counted in subscribers, hearts and pluses, each dated 18/08/2016. Even the panel under the Workshop list is on-brief: a newsletter signup ('Sign up for your free hat!') with name, email, country and language fields, because in this front end every surface is either playing, sharing or recruiting. The design lesson is the layering, store, social graph and game menu share one blue, rounded, card-based language, so downloading a stranger's windmill feels like part of running your park. Frame at about 0:19 in the Planet coaster GamePlay Trailer 2 video (Steam), a manual probe extraction (probes/p18.5.png at 18.5s; the scene-change pass caught only the Steam-overlay page that follows it). No trailer typography overlays this frame.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

master-detail side-panel card-grid

Components

Parts on screen.

Card Tabs Menu List Toggle

Screen inventory

• left, the selected creator rendered as a full-body park guest avatar standing on the menu globe, gold crown hat, blue sweater vest, the profile's owner presented as a character, not an icon
• centre, the 'Marc Cox' profile card: Friend / Away status, a Steam-branded 'View All Uploads' button, and a 'Trending Uploads' pair of blueprint cards, Fairytale House and Windmill, each with a thumbnail, star rating, subscriber / heart / plus counts and a 'Last updated: 18/08/2016' line, closed by an X at the card's top right
• right rail, the STEAM WORKSHOP panel living inside the game's own front end: a 'Search Steam Workshop' field, three icon tabs, and a scrollable Featured Creator list (Flabaliki, James Taylor, Kukamonda, Marc Cox highlighted in blue as the selection, Matt Preece, Matthew Simper), every row crown-badged 'Featured Creator'
• below the Workshop panel, a newsletter card, 'Sign up for your free hat!', with First name / Last name / email fields, Country and Language dropdowns, a terms checkbox and a 'Sign me up!' button: marketing folded into the menu as one more panel
• the frame's chrome: 'Welcome! ctaylor' user chip top left, the PLANET COASTER logo centred over the globe, and three round buttons top right (menu list, settings gear, exit)

Top 3 colors

#3a86de 30%#cad5d9 21%#5b97ce 16%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Frontier Developments, Planet Coaster screenshot: Planet coaster GamePlay Trailer 2 and Planet Coaster Launch Trailer videos (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Frontier Developments.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-21. verified 2026-10-21: manual probe frame (probes/p18.5.png, 18.5s) inspected at full resolution (1920x1080 native), genuine in-game front-end screen, settled and legible (both blueprint cards' titles, star rows, counts and update dates, all six Featured Creator names, the search field and every newsletter field label all readable); the trailer's SHARE title present at 18.0s has cleared by this timestamp; no marketing typography overlays the frame

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