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

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

David Stolp - 6,050,910
J.B. Lewis - 6,050,700
James Anderson - 6,050,690
Andrew Bennett - 6,050,660
Evan Dummit - 6,049,870
Larry Jackson - 6,049,440
Paul Gilbert - 6,049,220
Warwick Anderson - 6,049,010
Tom Rowe - 6,048,940
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.