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Would it be possible to Descanize Mr. Strange's typing cat avatar?
Is anyone up for the challenge?

Oh no, not again....

(Keep in mind I don't use gamemaker, and I'm also extremely tired so take what I say with a grain of salt)

For loading levels into an array or whatever after generation you need to note a few things: 

First of all, if you have saving and loading in your game you will need to read/write files anyway, so you need to get used to saving/loading to file. 

Second, I'm assuming whatever "DungeonLevel" you have is itself some sort of Object or whatever that has a tilemap, monsters, objects, whatever.  Therefore it kinda boggles me about why you need to save it to an array because you should probably already have something like:

//not really code
GameObject:
   Gamestates; //all the things, like if a level has already been generated, etc//
   DungeonObjects[numberofdungeons];
   InitializeDungeons()
     {DungeonObjects[FirstLevel].loadlevel(FirstLevel); //first level is always static//
       DungeonObjects[AllOtherObjects] = NULL; //so not a function, but starts off saying the other dungeon levels arent generated//
      }
    true/false: GenerateLevel(whichlevel)
    {  if (Gamestates.whichlevel.notgenerated()) //generate level if its not loaded yet, return false if level exists //
            { GeneratelevelMethod(DungeonObjects[whichlevel], randomseed); return true;}
         else  return false;
     }
     true / false: LoadLevel(whichlevel)
     {  if (GameStates.whichlevel.generated()) // if its generated we can load it from a file, call this when you enter the level//
          { LoadLevelMethod(DungeonObjects[whichlevel]); return true;}
          else return false;
      }   
     GenerateLevelMethod(DungeonObjects[whichlevel], randomseed) //you should already have something like this I'm guessing
     {DungeonObjects[whichlevel] = generate(randomseed); }
     LoadLevelMethod(DungeonObjects[whichlevel]) //and the load function, assume theres some save function too of course
      {DungeonObjects[whichlevel] = load("filename");} //filename is whatever thingy you decide on for saving and loading of course, and can vary greatly or be static or whatever depending on how you save things.
     

If you want anything more specific than that you probably need to talk to someone that uses gamemaker, or post code you are having trouble with (and then also probably talk to someone familiar with gamemaker).

Grandfather fell today and injured head and had to take him to the hospital.  Got him home, thought I had him set up good (he was asleep and I needed to lay down for a moment due to exhaustion) and then he fell again and scraped the bandage off and I had to redo it.  Now I've moved computer into kitchen, corralled him in the living room with a couch next to his bed (where I'm going to sleep from now on so he can't sneak past me) and got the porta potty nearby too so if hes bad I dont have to wheelchair him all the way to the bathroom. 

I'm not even sure I'm sad right now, I think I'm just too tired to feel much other than bad in general.  Its been a rough week.

I would definitely put on a robe and wizard hat, for sure.

It's an exercise that may be marked. I'll get in trouble if I use something we haven't covered in class.

Your class sounds terrible.  I would totally snark it up and do 'the easy way (see attached pages for hard way)' and hand it in done in arrays, then done in some ridiculous over the top fashion using technically only things that have been taught so far, with snarkier and snarkier variables and comments the entire way thru.

Hrmm, I should change my avatar.  I wonder what the next sufficiently cool avatar fad will be.

Week 47 update: AGDQ distracted me quite a bit but managed to do some A* work, yay!  Just a little bit more and I can call upon all the npcs ever to find and eat players everywhere.