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🍬 Crush & Tell Episode 5: Game Design

🎉 We’re back… and kicking off the new year with a brand-new episode of Crush & Tell!

In this episode, we will go behind the scenes with Mick, Senior Game Designer, as he reveals the secrets behind level design, player psychology, and how every swipe is made to feel just right.

You’ll discover more about:

How Candy Crush levels are designed for maximum fun.
The truth about game myths (color bombs, cascades & combos!).
Exclusive strategy tips from the design team.
What makes great game design and why it keeps you coming back.

👀 Stay tuned for insider hints, creative inspiration, and a peek into the real recipe for fun!

Question of the day?

If you could design one new Candy Crush feature, what would it be? Comment below!

Welcome! 👋

Comments

hortangel

I'm grateful for this video and also happy to have the opportunity to listen to others older players. This takes me way back to so many levels and games i have played and even forgotten in this candy crush. I don't have much to add to What they have already said but just to say that please let your points be looked in to. Thanks

christinewupp

I have watched the video and have found Mick very clear and enthusiastic. He said he would read all the comments, so I will respond here:

I loved hearing your explanations on game design and yes, replacing the build-a-bot with the candy necklace was a huge improvement to the game. A lot of the events and features are a lot clearer now to more players.

As for the level design aspect. We in the community do know that an AI programme has taken over level design of all new levels in the game and also some of the older levels as they get replaced. To me personally it is always quite obvious to see which levels were designed entirely by AI and which had a human input.

So firstly: We miss you! We miss seeing real people who lovingly and intelligently designed the levels we used to love in Candy Crush. The old algorithms written by real level designers were satisfying as they included a strategy element. We felt that what moves we made actually mattered and affected the outcome of the level. Thank you for all the work you have done and please, please come back and take back control of the level design from the AI.

Secondly: Some of the info you gave in your interview is outdated. As Carol stated in her post the dragons are now known as sprinks, and also cascades practically no longer happen in Candy Crush due to the changes that were made to the gameplay in 2025:

The old algorithms that you designed have in fact been replaced by the AI to incorporate the super chargers and the new jelly fish behaviour during the course of the last year. I have found that the first three moves are what decides the outcome of the level. This may not be new of course, but with the changes made in 2025 it has become much more obvious. Players can now see that the level outcome is fixed and predetermined. If enough blockers are cleared in the initial first three moves, such as with a double super charger combo or party popper or a specific combo, players will get what I call a "best possible outcome": Depending on the level difficulty written into the specific board on this specific attempt this best possible outcome will be an easy pass, a pass with specific boosters, a pass with 1/3/5 or more additional moves etc. These outcomes are easily recognisable and seem unaffected by what moves we make in the mid section of each level.

Candy Crush in 2026 is no longer about how to pass a specific level but about how to manage your boosters and gold inventories effectively. A lot of players obviously enjoy this aspect of the game, but it does mean that much of what you told us in the latter part of the video no longer applies. And certainly all the older tips found online now are not the best tips on how to play the game any more. Anything older than a year is in fact outdated.

I have created some up-to-date tips in my latest post which you can find if clicking on my name at the top of this post.

kiddmon3y

I would like to challenge you to a match

Creative_Elsa

Hi @Anniseh would you please share your thoughts on why the search bar would help you. More important is the reason to let the studio know why you want to go back to replay older levels. When I created that idea is was for me to go back to level 1476 for the Sugar Drop Challenge. Many of us really loved that challenge and we’d scroll down to the lower levels to collect the 180 points to get the rewards. Other players loved to go back to older levels to get 3 stars for each level. Why did you want to go back to older levels to replay them?

Carol-38

Just watched the video and I'm sorry to say I'm not as enthusiastic as Creative_Elsa is Mick.

Not sure how long ago this was recorded but Dragons got mentioned a lot of times, they were changed quite a while ago to Sprinks. And yes I had a go with level 8262 as well, shame you didn't play it to the end Mick, but I'm guessing you knew you wouldn't complete it without boosters or extra moves.

It was said Community feedback is listened to and acted on, I had to get a tissue to wipe my eyes and blow my nose I was laughing so much.

If you really want to know what players would like @QueenB has been sent stacks of feedback over the years, but nothing has changed from any of that.

But thanks for the video and thanks for the laugh 😂

Anniseh

well the search bar for a level was my idea for years I am on level 21100 something and scrolling back to level 1000 takes years

QueenB

Wow, thank you so much for this incredible feedback @Creative_Elsa 😃

It means a lot to hear how much you enjoyed the video and I know Mick and the team will be thrilled to hear your kind words. Thank you also for resurfacing your ideas and for taking the time to share these reflections with us. I’ll make sure your message gets passed along to the right people 😉

And bringing back Zoom calls... what a throwback 😊 and Noted 👀

Creative_Elsa

Dear Kingsters, Trisha and Mick, this video is totally awesome! Mick, you did an excellent job of explaining some things to our community members! I do remember reading about starting at the bottom to clear things and you did a great job explaining this. I think this is what has been lacking …. hearing from the game developers to learn more about the game.

I remember when there were Zoom meetings with the Kingsters and they showed us new ideas and wanted our feedback. @QueenB and Mick, please, please try to bring that back this year. When I was involved as a SuperStar when this community first opened, our team was able to chat with some of the Kingsters and ask them questions. I remember seeing the actual game on their monitor and they showed us how they developed the levels by adding blockers, etc. I think the community members here would love to see that in a Zoom meeting. Please, consider doing the Zoom meetings again.

Question of the day?

If you could design one new Candy Crush feature, what would it be? Comment below!

Mick, I am going to go back to January 2019 when I created this idea ………

As you can see from the print screen above there are 970 votes for this idea. If you go through some of the comments, especially now that there are over 20,000 levels, I would like to know why this was never implemented. I pushed along with the CM at that time but he told me that he kept trying but nothing was done. Perhaps it wasn't a priority because lots of glitches needed to be fixed. If it had to do with coding, the Farm Hero's studio and the Friends' studio found a way because they both have it in their games. If the studio is never going to add it, can you please post a response here and we can close this idea?

One more suggestion to add a new feature is this ……………….

The Soda studio added a super feature where you can double click on a special candy and also the fish, and it will become active. You don't have to wait for a match 3. Below is an example.

It has spoiled me to the point that when I play Saga it can be frustrating trying to make those match 3 moves. I wish …….. totally wish ……… that you, as a Senior Game Developer could add the same thing to Saga.

Time to end this message and go back to my animations. I love these videos so hope to see more of them in the future.

kiara_wael

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Comments

hortangel

christinewupp

I have watched the video and have found Mick very clear and enthusiastic. He said he would read all the comments, so I will respond here:

I have created some up-to-date tips in my latest post which you can find if clicking on my name at the top of this post.

kiddmon3y

I would like to challenge you to a match

Creative_Elsa

Carol-38

Just watched the video and I'm sorry to say I'm not as enthusiastic as Creative_Elsa is Mick.

It was said Community feedback is listened to and acted on, I had to get a tissue to wipe my eyes and blow my nose I was laughing so much.

If you really want to know what players would like @QueenB has been sent stacks of feedback over the years, but nothing has changed from any of that.

But thanks for the video and thanks for the laugh 😂

Anniseh

well the search bar for a level was my idea for years I am on level 21100 something and scrolling back to level 1000 takes years

QueenB

Wow, thank you so much for this incredible feedback @Creative_Elsa 😃

And bringing back Zoom calls... what a throwback 😊 and Noted 👀

Creative_Elsa

Question of the day?

If you could design one new Candy Crush feature, what would it be? Comment below!

Mick, I am going to go back to January 2019 when I created this idea ………

One more suggestion to add a new feature is this ……………….

The Soda studio added a super feature where you can double click on a special candy and also the fish, and it will become active. You don't have to wait for a match 3. Below is an example.

Time to end this message and go back to my animations. I love these videos so hope to see more of them in the future.

kiara_wael

Hello Candy Crushers

QueenB

@kiara_wael 🤩

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