I've gotten to the point in my project where I need to start thinking about level generation and storing data pertaining to the player's progression in the game. The levels in my game are generated at run time based on a few input parameters, and probably will never amount to more 100 numerical values. This allows for quick level creation with a corresponding level creator, and the possibility of user created maps in the future. My question is, what's the best way to store these levels? Putting all the data into header files would be quick and simple, but that doesn't leave room for expansion (or some I'm led to believe). I'd like to be able to add more levels in without the constraints of using header files (or, the constraint I believe is there), and as I mentioned earlier the possibility of user generated levels.

Also, the only information that needs to be stored pertaining to game progress is the last level the player has beaten, and perhaps a basic high score list, so I'm wondering what others think the best option for this information is as well.

Thanks in advance!

Unless I'm missing something in your post, this sounds like a relatively basic resource management problem. The standard answer is to store built-in level files in some sort of serialized form (binary or otherwise) in the Resources directory inside your application bundle, store user-created levels in the same format in a user-specified location, and to store user progress in a preferences file, possibly by using NSUserDefaults.

Nope, I think you hit the nail on the head. I'm new to iPhone dev, so I wasn't quite sure about the best course. Thanks again.

Ooh, didn't realize that was for iPhone. That changes my answer a bit; replace "a user-specified location" with "the Documents folder, as retrieved by this snippet of code".