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[[Image:TileWorld.png|thumb|right|A screenshot of [[Lesson 1]] in Tile World]]

== History ==

In 2000, [[Brian Raiter]] decided to make a port of the Microsoft version of Chip's Challenge to Linux.  Chuck Sommerville supported his plan and convinced him to make it possible to also emulate the Lynx set of rules, and to also make the program work under MS Windows.

In 2010, a new version of Tile World (TW2) was released along [[CCLP3]] by [[Madhav Shanbhag]].  It included [[CCX]] file support and a redesigned interface.  Despite becoming more popular than TW1 <ref>http://cczone.invisionzone.com/index.php?/topic/921-chipsexe-tile-world-or-tile-world-2/</ref>, it faced ocasional criticism, as it did not show passwords and had a few minor OS-specific annoyances.

On March 27 2014, Tile World 2.1 was released one day before [[CCLP1]].  It was made by [[Eric Schmidt]] with assistance from Madhav Shanbhag.  It fixed most of the above issues and added the possibility to change death messages, among other things.  It also fixed a few important ruleset glitches that had existed for a long time in both TW1 and TW2.

== Features ==

The Lynx ruleset in Tile World does allow some things the actual Lynx implementation of the game does not. Tile World accepts arbitrary connections of [[button]]s to [[trap]]s and [[clone machine]]s (in the actual Lynx game the connections are made implicitly based on positions of the buttons and targets), a concept borrowed from the MS implementation. North and west [[thin wall]]s, which did not appear in [[CC1]], can be used. One can also touch the border in the Lynx emulation without any unpredictable results that would occur in the actual Lynx game. Also, Tile World is not hindered by the limitations of the Atari Lynx hardware, so various limits aren't reproduced. Examples are only being able to hold a maximum of 256 [[key]]s, a maximum of 128 [[monster]]s that can be on screen, and having the titles contain no lowercase letters or symbols.

== Tiles ==

The original 32x32 tiles in the MS version are replaced with 48x48 tiles created by [[Anders Kaseorg]], which also don't use the 4-bit colors (16-color palette) that are used in the MS Chip's Challenge. With the Lynx ruleset, all objects move smoothly from one tile to the next, and animations are included when an [[object]] runs into [[water]], a [[bomb]] explodes, objects are [[Clone machine|cloned]], or Chip [[Death message|is killed]]. Also, [[element]]s except [[ice]] visibly "shimmer" and the [[exit]] continuously pulls its borders inwards as if it were a portal to another world.

== Files ==

Tile World is written in the C programming language. It uses the SDL library for platform-specific tasks. The platform-independent parts of the code - such as the game logic - are neatly separated from the platform-specific layer that renders the user interface, making it easy to port Tile World to a new platform.

== Trivia ==

[[Chuck Sommerville]], interviewed about Chip's Challenge's origins, notes that ''Tile World'' was the game's original name: "''[Helping other programmers] was not too terribly creative, so in my spare time at home, I started working up an idea for a game I always wanted to do that involved a player moving across [[tile]]s of different types, and interacting with them. I called it "Tile World.''"

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