How are game levels created?

Question

Programming

Interested in levels for logic games: rearranging objects, picking up a certain puzzle, etc.
Store each level as a thumbnail of the playing field?
What would you recommend to read, google on this topic? What are the pitfalls of common approaches? Can you share your experience?

Answer 1

For example, Tiled ( www.mapeditor.org/) is the most popular tool for describing game level maps. X by Y table, each cell can contain any meta-information (at your discretion, for example, an image ID from a spritesheet). The map can also consist of Z layers.