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Josh admits his early levels seen in JoshL1 were mostly ripoffs of existing levels in CC1 and were very lackluster. While he states he is embarrassed of his levels showcased in those sets, he is not ashamed of it, as it was just a step in his career of level design. While constructing JoshL2, despite showing improvements and actual originally in that set, there are still some lackluster levels. This is because he had no real goal with the set, other than to be Lynx-compatible. Josh considers JoshL3 to be a mistake, due to the major updates with level amount and inconsistencies it holds. He originally wanted to focus on more difficult levels but because of the vast amount of updates it has had in the past, he feels he failed to meet this goal. He states that JoshL3 is suppose to be "that lame sequel", though it does hold a few gem levels, including some that made it into CCLP1. | Josh admits his early levels seen in JoshL1 were mostly ripoffs of existing levels in CC1 and were very lackluster. While he states he is embarrassed of his levels showcased in those sets, he is not ashamed of it, as it was just a step in his career of level design. While constructing JoshL2, despite showing improvements and actual originally in that set, there are still some lackluster levels. This is because he had no real goal with the set, other than to be Lynx-compatible. Josh considers JoshL3 to be a mistake, due to the major updates with level amount and inconsistencies it holds. He originally wanted to focus on more difficult levels but because of the vast amount of updates it has had in the past, he feels he failed to meet this goal. He states that JoshL3 is suppose to be "that lame sequel", though it does hold a few gem levels, including some that made it into CCLP1. | ||
Josh didn't get his real inspiration until JoshL4, where he showed a real consistency in level design. He decided to focus more on level difficulty in JoshL4, since he failed to do so with JoshL3. This ultimately makes this set fall under some of the traps CCLP3 had unfortunately. Because this set was let's played by J.B. Lewis, he received feedback on majority of the levels, as well as the set itself. | Josh didn't get his real inspiration until JoshL4, where he showed a real consistency in level design. Most of his inspiration stemmed from playing Tyler Sontag's levels in the custom set, TS0. He decided to focus more on level difficulty in JoshL4, since he failed to do so with JoshL3. This ultimately makes this set fall under some of the traps CCLP3 had unfortunately. Because this set was let's played by J.B. Lewis, he received feedback on majority of the levels, as well as the set itself. | ||
While the feedback was positive, it made him realize his strive to make more friendly levels, which lead to JoshL5. The goal of this set was to show originality, as well as some interesting concepts and have fun to play levels that aren't nearly as hard as the ones from the previous set. It was once again let's played by J.B. Lewis, receiving great feedback. | While the feedback was positive, it made him realize his strive to make more friendly levels, which lead to JoshL5. The goal of this set was to show originality, as well as some interesting concepts and have fun to play levels that aren't nearly as hard as the ones from the previous set. It was once again let's played by J.B. Lewis, receiving great feedback. | ||
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Walls of CCLP3, in some spirits, can be portrayed as JoshL7 part 2, since its construction started only a month after JoshL7 was complete. However, this set was more a test to see if Josh was able to pull the idea off, as he had attempted it with CCLP1 two years prior. This set of levels features further level concepts as well as experiments with tile combinations, particularly with [[blob]]s and other monsters. This set also features original sokobans and block puzzles, albeit some are inspired by other levels. This, JoshL7, and the new JoshL6 are Josh's personal favorite sets of his. | Walls of CCLP3, in some spirits, can be portrayed as JoshL7 part 2, since its construction started only a month after JoshL7 was complete. However, this set was more a test to see if Josh was able to pull the idea off, as he had attempted it with CCLP1 two years prior. This set of levels features further level concepts as well as experiments with tile combinations, particularly with [[blob]]s and other monsters. This set also features original sokobans and block puzzles, albeit some are inspired by other levels. This, JoshL7, and the new JoshL6 are Josh's personal favorite sets of his. | ||
Later on, him and another avid level designer [[Jeffrey Bardon]] collaborated on a level set called ''TradingPlaces'' in which each designer built entirely new levels out of each other's wall templates from their respective sets, Ultimate Chip 6 and JoshL7. Some additional levels from past sets of one another were included as well for the sake of balancing out the level count total at 150. | |||
Shortly after, interest was expressed to do another collaborative set alongside J.B. Lewis and VT to build Walls of CC1 with CC1 content. Currently this set is in progress and has over 100 levels in total. | |||
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