Chip's Challenge Level Pack 1

Not to be confused with Chip's Challenge 1.

Chip's Challenge Level Pack 1 (CCLP1) refers to the official level pack that new players of Chip's Challenge are expected to play first. 

Ideally, this would have been the levelset of the original Chip's Challenge 1 game. However, that levelset cannot be freely distributed outside of the game, and the game itself can no longer be legally obtained. CCLP1 is a free community-created levelpack that new players will be able to use along with Tile World to learn and experience the basics of the game, before moving on to the more difficult CCLP2 and CCLP3.

CCLP1 was released on March 28, 2014, a week up from the original release date, after members of the community solved five puzzles related to CCLP1 over at CC Zone . A trailer was released on March 23, 2014 showcasing some of the levels in CCLP1 as a reward for solving these puzzles.

List of designers

Name	Number of Levels
Jonathan Birchall	2
Daniel Bouwmeester	6
Gavin Duncan	1
Grant Fikes	1
Rock Généreux	6
Trevor Hedges	4
Ben Hornlitz	2
Zane Kuecks	1
Mike Lask	1
Josh Lee	12
J.B. Lewis	13
Andrew Menzies	31
Michael Moorman	2
Ashley Newcomer	2
Markus O.	5
Tom Patten	12
Henry Potts	14
Wes Powers	1
Archie Pusaka	10
Ida Roberthson	3
"Rosabellis"	4
Eric Schmidt	1
Jacques Smith	1
Tyler Sontag	9
Miika Toukola	3
Dave Varberg	2

List of CCLP1 levels, in chronological order

1. Key Pyramid
2. Slip and Slide
3. Present Company
4. Block Party
5. Facades
6. When Insects Attack
7. Under Pressure
8. Switcheroo
9. Swept Away
10. Graduation
11. Basketball
12. Leave No Stone Unturned
13. The Monster Cages
14. Wedges
15. Twister
16. Tetragons
17. Tiny
18. Square Dancing
19. Feel the Static
20. Chip Suey
21. Generic Ice Level
22. Repair the Maze
23. Circles
24. Chip's Checkers
25. Mind Lock
26. Trafalgar Square
27. Teleport Depot
28. The Last Starfighter
29. Sky High or Deep Down
30. Button Brigade
31. Quincunx
32. Nitroglycerin
33. Spitting Image
34. Just a Bunch of Letters
35. Mystery Wall
36. Rhombus
37. Habitat
38. Heat Conductor
39. Dig and Dig
40. Sea Side
41. Descending Ceiling
42. Mughfe
43. Gears
44. Frozen Labyrinth
45. Who's the Boss?
46. Sapphire Cavern
47. Bombs Away
48. Sundance
49. 49 Cell
50. The Grass Is Greener on the Other Side
51. H2O Below 273 K
52. The Bone
53. Start at the End
54. Mini Pyramid
55. The Chambers
56. Connect the Chips
57. Key Farming
58. Corral
59. Asterisk
60. Guard
61. Highways
62. Design Swap
63. New Block in Town
64. Chip Kart 64
65. Squared in a Circle
66. Klausswergner
67. Booster Shots
68. Flames and Ashes
69. Double Diversion
70. Juxtaposition
71. Tree
72. Breathing Room
73. Occupied
74. Traveler
75. ToggleTank
76. Funfair
77. Shuttle Run
78. Secret Passages
79. Elevators
80. Flipside
81. Colors for Extreme
82. Launch
83. Ruined World
84. Mining for Gold Keys
85. Black Hole
86. Starry Night
87. Pluto
88. Chip Block Galaxy
89. Chip Grove City
90. Bowling Alleys
91. Roundabout
92. The Shifting Maze
93. Flame War
94. Slime Forest
95. Courtyard
96. Going Underground
97. Gate Keeper
98. Rat Race
99. Deserted Battlefield
100. Loose Pocket
101. Time Suspension
102. Frozen in Time
103. Portcullis
104. Hotel Chip
105. Tunnel Clearance
106. Jailbird
107. Paramecium Palace
108. Exhibit Hall
109. Green Clear
110. Badlands
111. Alternate Universe
112. Carousel
113. Teleport Trouble
114. Comfort Zone
115. California
116. Communism
117. Blobs on a Plane
118. Runaway Train
119. The Sewers
120. Metal Harbor
121. Chip Plank Galleon
122. Jeepers Creepers
123. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
124. Utter Clutter
125. Blockade
126. Peek-a-Boo
127. In the Pink
128. Elemental Park
129. Frogger
130. Dynamite
131. Easier Than It Looks
132. Spumoni
133. Steam Cleaner Simulator
134. (Ir)reversible
135. Culprit
136. Whirlpool
137. Thief Street
138. Chip Alone
139. Assassin
140. Automatic (Caution) Doors
141. Flush
142. Bummbua Banubauabgv
143. Amphibia
144. The Ancient Temple
145. Chance Time!
146. Cineworld
147. Thief, You've Taken All That Was Me
148. The Snipers
149. Clubhouse

Title

There has been some debate as to whether this level pack should actually be titled "CCLP1" or something else, mainly to avoid confusion with CC1 - the original game and levelset. Alternative names such as "CCLP0" and "TWLP1" have been suggested. However, the majority of the community is currently in favor of retaining CCLP1 as the title.

Levels

As with all community-created official level-packs, the plan was for Chipsters to vote on levels from custom level sets and select the best 149. The special introductory nature of this set demands levels that are similar in design to those from CC1, i.e. levels with aesthetically pleasing and consistent design, and levels without difficult puzzles. The first few levels are "lesson" levels that teach new players what each tile does.

Like CC1, the level set is compatible with both the Lynx and MS rulesets. Suggestions that levels also conform to some or all "pedantic" Lynx rules were considered, but voted against, as it was felt that this would be unnecessarily restrictive.

The following levels were confirmed to be in the set, revealed by the CCLP1 Leaks.

• Dynamite by Michael Moorman
• Time Suspension: Part II by Rock Généreux
• Whirlpool by J.B. Lewis
• Deserted Battlefield by "Rosabellis"
• Metal Harbor by Tyler Sontag

Other levels confirmed in the official CCLP1 trailer.

• Twister by Stefan Newcomer
• Gears by Ben Hornlitz
• ToggleTank by Archie Pusaka
• Runaway Train by Tom Patten
• Frozen Labyrinth by Josh Lee
• Who's the Boss? by Miika Toukola
• Tiny by Ida Roberthson
• The Last Starfighter by Dave Varberg
• Rhombus by Gavin Duncan
• Jeepers Creepers by Henry Potts
• Roundabout by Jonathan Birchall
• Launch by Zane Kuecks
• Frogger by Wes Powers
• Asterisk by Jacques Smith
• The Ancient Temple by Eric Schmidt
• Traveler by Mike Lask
• Steam Cleaner Simulator by Trevor Hedges
• Alternate Universe by Markus O.
• Square Dancing by Andrew Menzies
• Double Diversion by Grant Fikes
• The Chambers by Daniel Bouwmeester

Staff

J.B. Lewis has been appointed CCLP1 staff coordinator - as per the results of a community vote at the end of August 2011. The community was also in favor of the rest of the staff being appointed by the coordinator. Accordingly, the staff list was announced a couple of weeks later. The list of current staff members can be found on the CCLP1 website.

Voting

To narrow down the levels that appear on the ballot, the staff performed a pre-voting elimination. The "whitelist" was then finalized with inputs from the community: "limbo" levels that were fixed by their designers, and "blacklisted" levels that were nominated by at least 2 people (other than the designer), were re-considered for the whitelist.

CCLP1 voting is being conducted at CC Zone. Tom Patten has been appointed Voting Coordinator.

There are a couple of key changes in the voting mechanism (as compared to that used for CCLP2 and CCLP3), namely:

1. Voters need to provide only a single rating ranking each level; there is no separate "difficulty" rating.
2. The submitted levels have been grouped randomly into different level packs for voters to play and vote on.

The level packs are available at CC Zone as well as the Yahoo group.

Voting Packs

Pack	Release Date	Number of Levels
Cardboard	31st May 2013	50
Flouncy	31st May 2013	50
Giraffe	31st May 2013	50
Shampoo	31st May 2013	50
Lipstick	3rd June 2013	50
Tungsten	6th June 2013	50
Eggplant	7th June 2013	50
Vermillion	9th June 2013	50
Popcorn	15th June 2013	50
Dragon	16th June 2013	50
Zephyr	21st June 2013	50
Helmet	24th June 2013	50
Baguette	28th June 2013	50
Roadcone	29th June 2013	50
Magma	29th June 2013	50
Omicron	4th July 2013	50
Asteroid	12th July 2013	50
Kimono	15th July 2013	50
Igloo	16th July 2013	50
Quartz	17th July 2013	50
Umbrella	17th July 2013	50
Yoga	29th July 2013	50
Necktie	30th July 2013	50
Wrench	2nd August 2013	50
Jacuzzi	4th August 2013	50
Xylem	11th August 2013	50
Generic	12th August 2013	50
Bookshelf	13th August 2013	50
Parrot	13th August 2013	50
Violin	17th August 2013	50
Mushroom	28th August 2013	50
Shoehorn	28th August 2013	50
Entertainment	28th August 2013	47
	Total:	1,647

Timeline of Events

Date	Event
2011-04-22	CCLP1 - "an official freely available levelset with 149 easy Lynx-compatible levels - for those new to the game" - proposed in a post at the newsgroup.
2011-08-10	Announcement at the Yahoo! group calling for staff nominations and level submissions.
2011-09-01	Staff coordinator elected.
2011-09-14	Staff list announced.
2011-10-13	Level submissions opened.
2011-10-30	CCLP1 site launched.
2012-02-07	Submission deadline set to March 31, 2012.
2012-03-01	Submission deadline extended to June 30, 2012.
2012-06-30	Level submissions closed.
2013-03-19	Voting administrator(s) and site chosen.
2013-04-26	Initial voting lists published.
2013-06-01	CCLP1 voting began on CC Zone; first set of voting packs released.
2013-08-28	All 33 voting packs released.
2013-09-30	End date for voting set to December 31, 2013.
2014-01-01	Voting ended at 00:00 GMT.
2014-02-11	CCLP1 release date set to 4th April 2014.
2014-03-19	All CCLP1 "Within" puzzles solved. As a reward, CCLP1's release date was pushed forward to 28th March 2014.
2014-03-23	Official CCLP1 trailer video released to the public as the final leak.
2014-03-28	CCLP1 released.

Top 10 CCLP1 players

MS

• Melinda score - 6,005,820

1. J.B. Lewis - 6,005,820
2. James Anderson - 6,005,390
3. Miika Toukola - 6,003,760
4. Tyler Sontag - 6,000,430
5. Tom Rowe - 5,994,160
6. Reynaldi Judianto - 5,993,830
7. Ben Hornlitz - 5,991,800
8. Jonathan Birchall - 5,987,460
9. Jeffrey Bardon - 5,984,970
10. Steven Jones - 5,981,900

Lynx

• Melinda score - 6,000,130

1. J.B. Lewis - 6,000,100
2. Eddy Limb - 5,998,420
3. Miika Toukola - 5,996,400
4. Jeffrey Bardon - 5,985,820
5. Steven Jones - 5,972,510
6. Tyler Sontag - 5,967,810
7. "random 8" - 5,960,230
8. Ruben Spaans - 5,943,270
9. Finn Jepsen - 5,940,400
10. Dave Varberg - 5,912,950

External Links

• Official CCLP1 website
• CCLP1 on facebook

See also

1. Chip's Challenge 1
2. Chip's Challenge Level Pack 2
3. Chip's Challenge Level Pack 3