Chip's Challenge Level Pack 2

Chip's Challenge Level Pack 2, commonly called CCLP2, is the first official expansion pack (not sequel) for Chip's Challenge. It contains 149 more levels and was assembled by Anders Kaseorg and Dale Bryan, with the levels being taken from the many custom level sets available. It was released on February 9, 2002, and was followed by CCLP3 8 years later.

History

After Chip's Challenge 1 was released, its creator, Chuck Sommerville, sought to make a true sequel, known as Chip's Challenge 2 (CC2). The game was completed; however, due to copyright issues unveiled in 2002^{[citation needed]}, it was believed that it could never be released. (The game would finally see a release in May 2015.)

This set was effectively created as a 'replacement' for CC2 at the time, using CC1's engine and mechanics. Due to the complex circumstances surrounding it, CC2 and CCLP2 are often mistaken for each other.

Characteristics

Among all of Chip's Challenge's level packs, CCLP2 is above all known for its use of invalid tiles, often related to very crude cooks. For example, Block Away! uses a lock pyramid in front of the exit with only one safe path through it, which is complicated even further because one of the keys is not used in the correct path.

Solving similar puzzles such as Blocked Trap will reveal that the default for most CCLP2 invalid tile puzzles, and indeed any such puzzle in order to adhere to the "rule of 90/10", is that the resources given to Chip will hint as to the solution and that the first vestiges of the solution will hint as to the remainder of it. Discovering one safe lock in Blocked Trap will logically lead to a continuous trek north through all the remaining safe locks; such devices are the reasoning why, even with such devious puzzles, CCLP2 remains an easier set than CCLP3.^{[citation needed]}

More common glitches such as the Controller and Boss Glitch are generally absent from CCLP2 except in the earliest custom level sets. However, at least two levels, Dangers of Fire and Beasts and Trapped, remain busted under this glitch, as they were developed before resources (including this wiki) on Chip's Challenge and its occasional coding flaws.

Reception

At the original CCZone, a poll out of 13 voters yielded a 3.85/5 star rating, placing CCLP2 as the least favorite official set to date. Its main improvement over CC1 was more diverse, less overly homogenous levels, with J.B. Lewis praising its Sokoban levels for being "a bit more interesting than On the Rocks or Pain."

Frequent complaints included the use of invalid tiles, with Mike Lask thereby downgrading the levelset to a 4/5, and occasional advanced tricks such as After the Rainstorm and its ram that John branded as "just a bit mean for some players." Zero.prophet also observed that there are "many levels in CCLP2 that shouldn't have made the cut," which major CCLP3 staff and community leaders such as Tyler Sontag also agreed to. Rock Généreux, while in obvious assent with this reasoning, noted that the set contained only "10 really bad levels max" and should be respected for its "extremely good" compositions such as Cloner's Maze.

List of designers

Name	Number of Levels
Tyrethali Ansrath	32
Dave Borgman	21
Dale Bryan	11
Paul Hobden	8
Anders Kaseorg	1
Mike Lask	2
Hank Lin	1
Luc Longpré	1
John Matthews	3
Anne Olsen	6
Anders Pemer	2
Rolf Redford	4
Eric Schmidt	28
Christian Ståhl	12
David Stanley	5
Drew Thomas	7
Kyle Wightman	3
Drake Wilson	2

List of CCLP2 levels, in chronological order

1. A Fleeting Memory
2. Naomi's Bug Collection
3. Bea's Den
4. Force World
5. Suction Ride
6. Fixing the Toggle Switch
7. Slightly Mad
8. Use the Fish
9. Maze of One Way
10. Who Needs a Flipper?
11. Deconstruction
12. Mazed In
13. The Serial Port
14. The Parallel Port
15. Debug File
16. Paw-Print Isle
17. Double Trouble
18. Elemental
19. A Sample of Things to Come
20. Ranger Denmark
21. Block Away!
22. How Goes?
23. Traps I
24. Sudden Death
25. Race for the Chips
26. Work Fast
27. Frozen Floors
28. Madness I
29. Fire and Water
30. Chase Race
31. Well of Wishes
32. Tele-Portion
33. The Big Button Quest
34. Cypher II
35. Mirror
36. Spy
37. The Mystery of the Seven Chips
38. Mads' Rush I
39. Yike-O-Matic
40. Traps II
41. Ladder Needs a Wash
42. Hmmm!
43. Ray of Light
44. Fun House Rink
45. Breaking the Rules
46. Hurry Up, Chip!
47. Tele-Rooms
48. And Then There Were... Four?
49. Just a Minute!!
50. Smorgasbord
51. The Lake in Winter
52. Oracle I
53. Security Breach
54. Killer Rooms
55. Dangers of Fire and Beasts
56. Planet of the Teeth
57. Quad-Boot
58. Reversi
59. Lot of Danger
60. Internal Clock
61. Icy Moat
62. Chips on the Blocks
63. Jungle
64. Loop Holes
65. Beware of the Teeth!
66. Hobgoblins and Chimera
67. The One Sensible Chip
68. Madness II
69. So Many Chips!
70. Killer Spiral
71. Mads' Rush II
72. Checkerboard I
73. Bumble Boy
74. Chip Search
75. BuggyWall
76. Fire Bugs
77. Madd Maze
78. The Search for the Exit
79. Cra-zy
80. Frost Swirl
81. Just Enough
82. The Block Stops Here
83. Warehouse I
84. Crypts of Aganorak
85. Follow the Glacier Brick Road
86. Creative One-Ways
87. The Walker Machine
88. Don't Get Lost
89. The Ghetto Defender
90. Marjolaine's Maze
91. Tutti-Frutti
92. Abandoned Mines
93. Exit Chip
94. Checkerboard II
95. Learn
96. Glider and Fire
97. Roller Coaster
98. Loop
99. One-Block Sokoban
100. Torch
101. Hard as Rock
102. Chip's Fight
103. Island Hopping
104. Pyramid
105. Yet Another Puzzle
106. Bounce
107. Joyride I
108. Tricks
109. Blocked Trap
110. It's a Kind of Magic
111. Monster Factory
112. After the Rainstorm
113. Oorto Geld II
114. Joyride II
115. Counter Clockwise
116. Turn Turn Turn
117. CircleMaze
118. High Security
119. Teeth
120. Frost Rings
121. Flame Boy
122. Warehouse II
123. BlockSlide
124. Paramecia
125. Blocks 'n Bombs
126. Dodge!
127. Escape from Chipkatraz
128. Fantasy Island
129. Miscellaneous
130. Frozen Birdbath
131. Time Bomb
132. Captured
133. Block Maze
134. Microcosm
135. Zartacla
136. Switch Hit
137. Iron Mysticus
138. Patrolled
139. Frostbite
140. Keep Trying
141. Oracle II
142. Chomper Romp
143. Trapped
144. Wormwood
145. Gauntlet
146. Run-a-Muck
147. Cloner's Maze
148. Neptune
149. Key Color

Top 10 CCLP2 players

• Melinda's score - At least 6,051,070; +1 is possible on each of Loop, and Teeth, plus an unknown quantity on Keep Trying.
• Highest known bold score - 6,050,980

1. David Stolp - 6,050,910
2. J.B. Lewis - 6,050,700
3. James Anderson - 6,050,690
4. Andrew Bennett - 6,050,660
5. Evan Dummit - 6,049,870
6. Larry Jackson - 6,049,440
7. Paul Gilbert - 6,049,220
8. Warwick Anderson - 6,049,010
9. Tom Rowe - 6,048,940
10. Paul Jackson - 6,048,000

Trivia

• CCLP2 is the only official level pack that has no untimed levels.

External links

• Download CCLP2
• Jimmy Vermeer's list of the high scores on all CC1 and CCLP2 levels, which has unfortunately not been updated since 2006.
• The full high score list, what the records are, and who set and confirmed which records. Maintained by James Anderson.