Chip's Challenge Level Pack 4

Chip's Challenge Level Pack 4

Creator	N/A
Number of levels	149
Release	14 July 2017
First release	Unknown edit
Well-known release	Unknown edit
Latest release	Unknown edit
Location(s)	N/A
Difficulty	*****
CC1 • CCLP1 • CCLP2 • CCLP3 • CCLP4 • CCLP5 CC2 • CC2LP1

Chip's Challenge Level Pack 4, often abbreviated as CCLP4, is the fourth community level pack for Chip's Challenge 1 released on 14 July 2017.

Assembly of the CCLP4 staff, as well as discussion about the project, dates back to as early as November 2012; however, the project was put on hold in favor of a more beginner friendly set - CCLP1. After CCLP1's release, it was announced by Michael Warner on November 2nd, 2014 on the newsgroup that submissions for CCLP4 were being accepted for the set, however, at the time no one showed enough interest in such a project.

After CC2's release on May 28th, 2015, there was debate on whether to make any more level packs for the original game or to move on to the first custom CC2 pack. This ultimately led to various amount of polls and concerns on where members of the community stood with the project, with results showing more favor of another CCLP and holding off on a CC2 pack until more custom levels for the game are created.

On October 31st, 2015, it was announced that the project will get underway and thus submissions were officially being accepted. Shortly after, an official staff was formed and testing began. It was also announced that CCLP4 would be another set of 149 Lynx-compatible levels like previous CCLPs and the overall difficulty would be a mix of its predecessors, but not harder than the levels seen in late CCLP3. Deadline for submissions was announced to be March 1st, 2016.

By the close off date, 3,940 levels (including 74 already in CCLP1 and 39 in CCLP3) were submitted for CCLP4 consideration. The actual number of eligible levels is currently unknown, but estimated to be somewhere around 3,000.

On May 28, 2017, the official CCLP4 logo was revealed, as well as a series of leaks on the CCLP4 site for the set's upcoming release. The CCLP4 trailer was revealed on June 21, showcasing 21 levels, one per designer.

List of CCLP4 levels

#	Level Title	Password	Time Limit	Level Designer
1	Molecule	CDLM	200	Jeffrey Bardon
2	Pixelated Fire	KPIF	300	Eddy Limb
3	Fossilized Snow	FLZL	250	Jeffrey Bardon
4	Oasis	OTKC	250	Jeffrey Bardon
5	Non-Dimensional Layer	ZICN	325	Jeffrey Bardon
6	Proving Grounds	CXGY	400	J.B. Lewis
7	In the Pool	XQJJ	120	Rock Généreux
8	The Fourth Dimension	IDOX	440	Josh Lee
9	Pinball	SFAR	300	Andrew Menzies
10	Stuck in Emerald	WCIJ	100	Josh Lee
11	Keyboard Malfunction	BZHQ	400	Josh Lee
12	Rivets	CNZJ	300	Joshua Bone
13	Encased in Carbonite	IPUC	300	Andrew Menzies
14	Poly-Gone	GZKW	400	Cybersmack
15	Cross Back	LOKE	300	Andrew Menzies
16	Reservoir Frogs	AULP	350	J.B. Lewis
17	The Three Trials	NWZE	333	Michael Sugantino
18	Inferno Dynamics	DLXR	300	Gigih Agung Pradipta
19	Conservation of Keys	YOTS	200	Josh Lee
20	It's No Skin Off My Teeth	HVNI	400	Josh Lee
21	Glacial Palace	SPPL	350	Jeffrey Bardon
22	Bodyguards	ZLPL	300	Andrew Menzies
23	Western Standards of Living	ZYKG	450	Josh Lee
24	It's Easy Being Green	UXKC	450	Josh Lee
25	Difficulty Switch	NBLV	500	Andrew Menzies
26	Shrub	PHIR	300	Josh Lee
27	Suburban Legend	WYBM	450	Jeffrey Bardon
28	Zephyr Heights	WXGK	500	Josh Lee
29	Flipper Departments	VPXB	400	Josh Lee
30	Hoodwinked	WMZK	100	Cybersmack
31	Big Boulder Alley	IIWT	500	Jeffrey Bardon
32	Blended Brussels Sprouts	ORQI	350	Jeffrey Bardon
33	Tool Shed	UAAY	300	Andrew Menzies
34	Frozen Waffle	CGOG	200	Jeffrey Bardon
35	Chasing Chips	FLGK	450	Cybersmack
36	One Who Raids Tombs	FWAV	600	Eddy Limb
37	Tropical Hibiscus	PLOX	450	Josh Lee
38	Detonation Station	IXTS	250	Josh Lee
39	In the Walls of Gravel Castle	YEZW	600	Josh Lee
40	Periodic Lasers	WFJZ	200	Andrew Menzies
41	Ghetto Piranha	ZUDA	400	Josh Lee
42	Nova Prospect	RJUI	300	Eddy Limb
43	Coral Reef	NPKF	500	Jeffrey Bardon
44	Blobfield	PKXT	444	Andrew Menzies
45	Seven-Layer Salad	QJIG	450	Eddy Limb
46	Exclusive Or	VJFI	300	Tyler Sontag
47	Antidisruptive Caves	IIQC	400	Jeffrey Bardon
48	Key Insight	FSGT	350	Jeffrey Bardon
49	Block Parking	FSJS	---	chipster1059
50	Secret Underground Society	TWXM	430	Jeffrey Bardon
51	Ice in a Blender	WTUH	429	Jeffrey Bardon
52	It Suits the Purpose	JKYT	180	Zane Kuecks
53	Protect Your Fortress	GKPN	450	Tyler Sontag
54	Split Path	ERBL	220	Zane Kuecks
55	If I Ran the Zoo	EWRI	600	Joshua Bone
56	Fireworks Factory	IXRS	750	Josh Lee
57	Bisection	IEKN	500	Jeffrey Bardon
58	Ruinous Plaza	YBOO	450	Josh Lee
59	Blockpick	AYJV	400	Jeffrey Bardon
60	Flippant	IPPP	300	Tyler Sontag
61	Blue Tooth	ULLR	600	J.B. Lewis
62	Block Unpuzzle	AZXY	400	Andrew Menzies
63	Pneumatic Diversity Vents	UKDE	650	Andrew Menzies
64	Excuse Me	THVV	400	Andrew Menzies
65	Duplex	DETZ	700	Josh Lee
66	Anaconda	SDAY	300	Henry Potts
67	Nuclear Energy for Dummies	PBDM	400	Trevor Hedges
68	Cold Fusion Reactor	MZTT	---	Jeffrey Bardon
69	Ball in an Awkward Place	MKFF	500	Josh Lee
70	Science Museum	MLZL	450	J.B. Lewis
71	Puuf	MQMT	200	Rock Généreux
72	Sewerway	GNHV	500	Archie Pusaka
73	Sealed Doors in the Spacecraft	TELT	300	Josh Lee
74	Technopathic	TNEL	471	Tyler Sontag
75	Unmitigated Hint Factory Disaster	AARG	480	Jeffrey Bardon
76	Flow State	XNVY	500	Jeffrey Bardon
77	Brick Block Facility	AWEQ	600	Josh Lee
78	Aquatic Ruins	VCZB	600	Jeffrey Bardon
79	Spring	RYXZ	500	Tyler Sontag
80	Monster Swapper	PVQF	400	Andrew Menzies
81	Estranged for a Season	DKEZ	450	Eric Schmidt
82	Puzzle Box	JEZO	---	Henry Potts
83	Frozen Over	MKYE	500	Josh Lee
84	Forsythia	ABNH	550	Tyler Sontag
85	Nectar Meadow	DQBB	600	Josh Lee
86	Cyprus	PRAR	400	Tyler Sontag
87	And the Walls Kept Tumbling Down	FCVL	600	Andrew Menzies
88	Empty Rooms	JCXL	400	Tyler Sontag
89	Diametric Opposition	TIJU	450	Jeffrey Bardon
90	Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy	SPCH	480	Jeffrey Bardon
91	How to Retune Your Harp	BNSX	500	Jeffrey Bardon
92	Fire Is My Enemy	BKIE	600	Josh Lee
93	Bombs Are a Beautiful Thing	SRVL	500	Josh Lee
94	Ditchdigger	CLHO	600	Archie Pusaka
95	Ravaged	SFOC	665	Josh Lee
96	Lean Thinking	XWSF	---	Ida Roberthson
97	Lockdown	WCRV	350	Zane Kuecks
98	Clay Tunnel	KJZC	600	Josh Lee
99	Ice Cavern	SHNW	400	Henry Potts
100	One Tank's Adventure	DOGI	999	Andrew Menzies
101	Condo Management	IMCR	600	Josh Lee
102	The Key Issue	IBOI	400	Ida Roberthson
103	Malachite	ULGG	700	Josh Lee
104	Dual	XBLT	222	Markus O.
105	Living Things	ZCLS	500	Josh Lee
106	Gridlock	USSA	300	Cybersmack
107	Combinations	ZETB	---	Andrew Menzies
108	Scatterbrained	KQIZ	700	Andrew Menzies
109	Shemozzle	BAVY	60	J.B. Lewis
110	Keyrithmetic	QOIZ	---	Andrew Menzies
111	Water Bottle	AMJL	200	Markus O.
112	Triple Mint Slurpee	GEHT	600	Josh Lee
113	Half of You, Half of Me	BREL	449	Rock Généreux
114	Repugnant Nonsense	ASGV	750	Tyler Sontag
115	Overlap	NZAR	---	Rock Généreux
116	They're Not Called Blocks for Nothing	YKIP	500	Eric Schmidt
117	Greenian Motion	LNMX	300	Josh Lee
118	Chip Controls	YQKZ	500	Markus O.
119	Strandquist	JRVM	650	Josh Lee
120	Construct-a-Sokoban	AGUI	800	Markus O.
121	Death and Destruction	IHGB	550	Tyler Sontag
122	Jigsee	QBSE	900	Andrew Menzies
123	Life Is Not a Puzzle	NAYZ	850	Josh Lee
124	Air Bubble	FZJQ	150	Jeffrey Bardon
125	Beautiful Struggle	CHOT	750	Josh Lee
126	Bind Mender	NVMW	177	Miika Toukola
127	Wrong Exit	JGWA	300	Markus O.
128	Mindless Self-Indulgence	DBOT	700	Tyler Sontag
129	Undefined Fantastic Object	SHXP	240	Jeffrey Bardon
130	Bam Thwok	NNBE	700	Tyler Sontag
131	Jigsaw	GTQW	900	Andrew Menzies
132	Monorail	LYFQ	700	Tyler Sontag
133	Monochrome	JGMT	800	Andrew Menzies
134	Pushover	DBOH	500	Archie Pusaka
135	Propaganda	XBJO	500	Tyler Sontag
136	Seeing Red	LOEC	400	Jeffrey Bardon
137	The Longest Track	KKUN	---	Archie Pusaka
138	Zipper	BSOL	550	Jeffrey Bardon
139	Unravel	PGUU	---	Jeffrey Bardon
140	Repair the Automatic (Caution) Doors	JNKO	999	Andrew Menzies
141	World of a Thousand Flames	PAVJ	900	Josh Lee
142	Stratagem	AXLS	60	Derek Bowser
143	Color Coordination	UWER	800	J.B. Lewis
144	Paradigm Shift	ZLVW	877	Jeffrey Bardon
145	Hacked Save File	VSVA	564	Josh Lee
146	Japanese Game Show	UPQI	---	J.B. Lewis
147	Gimmick Isle	BKXL	999	Tyler Sontag
148	Gravity Well	HFZF	450	Jeffrey Bardon
149	Mental Marvel Monastery	IWOY	700	Josh Lee

List of designers

Name	Number of Levels
Jeffrey Bardon	30
Joshua Bone	2
Derek Bowser	1
chipster1059	1
Cybersmack	4
Rock Généreux	4
Trevor Hedges	1
Zane Kuecks	3
Josh Lee	37
J.B. Lewis	7
Eddy Limb	4
Andrew Menzies	21
Markus O.	5
Henry Potts	3
Gigih Agung Pradipta	1
Archie Pusaka	4
Ida Roberthson	2
Eric Schmidt	2
Tyler Sontag	15
Michael Sugantino	1
Miika Toukola	1

Staff

With the help of J.B. Lewis, community members Josh Lee and Jeffrey Bardon decided to take on the role of co-leaders of the staff. This would be the first time an official custom set would have two leaders as opposed to one. The staff list was announced shortly after submissions were opened on November 2nd, 2015. The list of staff members at the time of the set's release were as follows:

Name	Role
Josh Lee	Staff Coordinator
Jeffrey Bardon	Project Manager
The Architect	Staff Speaker
Tyler Sontag	Webmaster
Andrew Menzies	Playtester
random 8	Playtester
J.B. Lewis	Staff Consultant
David Stolp	Voting Administrator

Voting

To narrow down the levels that appeared on the ballot, the staff performed a pre-voting elimination from the time submissions opened until voting officially started on July 15th, 2016. These levels were eliminated because they were too unequal between MS and Lynx, unsolvable, disqualified by the designer, already in (or too similar to levels in) CC1 or a previous CCLP, full of tedium, guesswork, poor design, or otherwise deemed unfit by the staff to be in voting. Before and during voting, community members had the privilege to nominate any level that was eliminated by the staff or did not receive at least 2 "staff recommendations" prior to voting. Any level that had 1 staff recommendation needed 2 community nominations (excluding the designer) to get a chance in voting, whereas any level that had 0 recommendations needed 3. This nomination process ended on September 15th and the 115 nominated levels appeared in voting in the last remaining packs.

CCLP4 voting was conducted at David "pieguy" Stolp's website, given his role as official Voting Administrator.

Packs of 50 random levels were used for the voting process, as was done with CCLP1. Like CCLP3, the two categories of voting "Fun" and "Difficulty" made a return to the voting process; however, the difficulty rating was completely optional, though encouraged to help determine how the set would be finalized. At the start of voting, four packs were released, and once a released pack had a total of 5 votes, a new one was released. An account on pieguy's site was necessary to vote, but all voting packs could be downloaded without an account through pieguy's site or the official CCLP4 website.

Voting ended April 30, 2017 at 11:59 EDT. A total of 25,550 votes were cast by 40 unique voters.

Voting packs

From July 15th to November 2nd, 2016, 28 voting packs were released for CCLP4. All packs contained 50 levels, with the exception of the final pack containing only 20, for a total of 1,370 levels.

Pack	Release Date
Waffle	July 15th
Elephant	July 15th
Hillside	July 15th
Zygote	July 15th
Ravioli	July 17th
Microwave	July 17th
Utility	July 18th
Kangaroo	July 22nd
Cobalt	July 26th
Quagmire	July 30th
Tornado	August 6th
Yodel	August 7th
Longbow	August 7th
Souvenir	August 13th
Fusion	August 15th
Xenon	August 24th
Bungalow	August 26th
Gazebo	August 31st
Platypus	September 2nd
Justice	September 14th
Obstacle	September 16th
Nightshade	September 19th
Voltage	September 21st
Dandelion	October 4th
Acropolis	October 18th
Inchworm	October 23th
Pineapple	October 31st
Expansion	November 2nd

Timeline of events

Date	Event
2015-10-31	Level submissions opened
2015-11-02	Staff formed and announced
2015-11-04	CCLP4 site launched
2016-01-01	Submission deadline set to March 1st, 2016
2016-03-01	Submissions closed
2016-05-16	Level submission fixes close off date set to June 16th, 2016
2016-06-16	Level submission fixes no longer accepted. Final testing underway
2016-07-01	Community nominations begin, date of voting announced as July 15th, 2016
2016-07-15	Voting begins - four initial voting packs released
2016-09-15	Community nominations end - 115 additional levels make it into voting
2016-11-02	All 28 voting packs released
2017-01-26	Voting deadline proposed to April 30, 2017
2017-04-30	Voting ended at 11:59pm EDT
2017-05-28	CCLP4 logo and first leaks revealed
2017-06-21	CCLP4 trailer launched. Release date set to July 14, 2017
2017-07-14	CCLP4 released at 8pm EDT

Top 10 CCLP4 players

Current as of March 16, 2020

MS

• Melinda score - 6,111,420
• All bolds - 6,111,390

#	Player	Score	Bold count
1	J.B. Lewis	6,111,380	148
1	Jeffrey Bardon	6,111,380	147
3	Kacper Leszczyński	6,107,310	81
4	Shane Climenhaga	6,103,620	99
5	chipster1059	6,097,840	41
6	Tyler Sontag	6,087,070	57
7	Josh Lee	6,075,890	19
8	Steven Jones	6,072,550	8
9	random 8	6,048,200	3
10	Red Slash	6,003,400	0

Lynx

• Melinda score - 6,100,940
• All bolds - 6,100,930

#	Player	Score	Bold count
1	J.B. Lewis	6,100,930	149
2	Ruben Spaans	6,098,210	97
3	Reynaldi Judianto	6,088,200	39
4	Jeffrey Bardon	6,079,500	26
5	Steven Jones	6,073,420	11
6	Josh Lee	6,060,240	9
7	chipster1059	6,056,480	1
8	random 8	6,029,890	3
9	Miika Toukola	5,978,280	16
10	The Architect	5,948,040	0

External links

• Official CCLP4 site
• Download CCLP4