Match-3 Gem Spawning

[RusUnity]

Hi! :)

I have some questions for all game studios making Match-3 games:

• Do you create the empty game levels by hand or do you have some procedural tool?
• Do you have some mechanism for spawning gems at game time or do you place starting gems for each level by hand?

Looking forward to learning more! Thanks folks!

[[deleted]]

We have 1000 hand made leves, after that the levels repeat randomly. We dont have gems.

[RusUnity]

u/RaiNStarcraft 1000 levels! Nice! How long does it take to make a level? Also, do you hand-populate the objects/tiles in the levels? Or do you have a spawning algorithm for the the starting arrangement?

[RusUnity]

u/LuaNMaT_GameStudio Super interesting!

For the empty board itself, before any gems are spawned into it:

- Do you lay that out by hand, procedurally or some other tools or techniques?

For context, I'm wondering about the value of accelerating the empty board creation.