I'm not sure I completely grasp what you're asking but it sounds like states might be what you're looking for. States are good for everything from overall level management to specific actor modes. I've had good luck with kikito's Stateful library. If states are overkill then I'd just use what you ca...

I'm more familiar with procedural generation of top-down levels, but I figured I'd share what I know and some of it may be useful to you. There are probably more methods to doing PG but there are two popular styles I've read about - cellular automata and dividing levels into sectors. Cellular automa...