Ok, well, it's a puzzle game much like PopCap's Mummy Maze. The parts that I would put in a text file is simply the starting point of the player and enemy (or enemies), the exit, and the walls. All of which I currently have hard coded into an array. Since I only have one level, it seems nice enough, but on a 25x25 grid, and a two dimensional array, it takes a lot of lines of manual code to fill it up for just one level. That's why I don't want to have to hard code several levels. It would be so much easier if I could just compile the program once, and just add files as I go along, thus adding more levels. Sure, cheaters could just place themselves next to the exit, but what is the fun in that? As for all this serializing stuff...I don't think I have learned that yet. Also, I work much better with examples. Preferably commented examples. So, could you please point me toward one? I would very much appreciate it. I know how to open files and use the stremreader, but I only know how to use the StreamReader for one line at a time, though I suppose I could use a For loop to go through the characters and then use a Switch...Case statement to parse the text into the correct object for the array. But I was hoping for something easier. Assuming it is possible to make it easier.

I have an unfinished C# puzzle game I wrote, and I want to change it to use a text file to load the levels by parsing the text. I don't know how exactly to do it. I would also like to be able to read a directory and list each text file in an array, so I don't have to alter the code to add new levels. Can someone please help?