Joshua Bone

Joshua Bone is a noteworthy level designer, known for having twenty of his CC1 compositions included in CCLP3, CCLP4, and CCLP5, for designing 52 levels for and beta testing Chips Challenge 2, and for ongoing design work in his "Walls of Chip's Challenge" CC2 levelset.

Joshua has one CC1 level set, named "JoshB_LYNX". It is one of the few level sets designed with the Lynx Ruleset in mind, so it contains levels that are busted in the MS Ruleset or do not work as intended in that ruleset. This set, designed in 2005, originally had 37 levels, 31 of which were eligible for inclusion in CCLP3. Fifteen of them were voted into CCLP3—his level Spiral was voted the highest in the fun category, and How to Get Around in Venice was voted the second-highest in that category.

In 2013, Joshua briefly returned to CC1 level design, adding a dozen or so levels to JoshB_LYNX. He soon discontinued design work due to frustration with designing for both the MS and Lynx rulesets simultaneously. However, one level designed during this time period, If I Ran the Zoo, did end up being voted into CCLP4, along with Rivets from the earlier (2005) set.

Since the release of CC2 in 2015, Joshua worked on and off on a CC2 levelset called the "Walls of Chip's Challenge" which aimed to create 149 new CC2 puzzles based on the walls or layout of the original CC1 game. A version with all levels completed except for one based on Thanks to... was released in June 2020. Approximately 100 of his designs appeared in CC2LP1 voting and 27 of these levels were selected for the final set, the third most of any designer.

Levels in official packs

CCLP3

#	Name
6	Thieves and Teleports
9	Redoubled Effort
12	My Friend
21	Mud and Water
26	Spiral
32	Pearl Diving
40	Blazes
71	How to Get Around in Venice
84	No End in Sight
90	Lichenstein
92	Bolkonski
96	In the Limelight
100	Sardines
126	Marooned
148	Diabolical

CCLP4

#	Name
12	Rivets
55	If I Ran the Zoo

CCLP5

#	Name
50	The Unwinding
116	Sho Sheng Shui
139	Udassa

CC2

#	Name
12	Force Perimeter
14	Run-Around
16	Sea Turtles
18	No Turning Back
47	Desert Oasis
58	Gold Rush
59	Trial and Error?
63	Disciple
69	Lookalike
76	Thaw
79	Onion
90	Evil Twin
108	Repaer Mirg
117	Room 9
120	Foursome
124	Yellow Brick Road
125	Wolfpack
128	Winter in the Marsh
129	Firing Range
130	Nonsense
132	Breaking In
134	Re:Think
135	Clueless
136	Big House
138	Construction Zone
139	Re:Think II
140	Rebel
142	Fish and Chips
143	Caverns
148	Tank Rush
149	Banquet Hall
151	Minefield
153	Deathtrap
155	Venice
157	Swivel Motel
158	No Easy Task
159	In & Out
160	Antarctica
161	Dodgeball
167	Prey
171	Haunted Castle
175	Thinktank
179	In & Out II
180	Smuggler
181	Deadmeat
183	Hired Hand
186	Da Bomb
187	Endangered Species
188	Clone
189	Island
192	Boiler Room
193	Tank War

CC2LP1

#	Name
1	Island Beginnings
4	Cave Diving
6	How to Item Drop Like a Champ
18	Dialectic Materialism
24	If Walls Could Speak
34	Relics of a Lost Age
40	A Real Thinker
51	Faces in the Mirror
52	Stopgap Measure
58	Caveat Emptor
67	Before My Very Eyes
77	Repeaters
87	Of the Roses
97	Around the Corner
100	Treasure Collection
110	Hoopla
112	The Amazing Vortex
140	Title Deferred
141	Thin Blue Line
144	Marktkanaal
156	Uptown Decisions
160	Sneak Around
187	Return Strategies
188	Noen Cheoc
195	Teleblast
198	Great Train Robbery
199	Obfuscated and Interred

Design style

CC1

Joshua's CC1 levels usually are small or medium in size, and their difficulty ranges from very simple to medium. As such, most of his levels are placed early in CCLP3. Marooned was placed as level 126, however, it is a simple level and was intentionally placed later in the set by staff. Diabolical was placed as level 148, but only to serve as a break after possibly the most challenging level in CCLP3, Avalanche. His levels usually contain simple but elegant puzzles and the occasional dodging of monsters. One predominant theme of his levels is clever interactions with monsters, for example, with the fireball in Redoubled Effort, the teeth in Marooned, the bugs in Mud and Water, or the tanks and pink balls in Lichenstein. He also pioneered and popularized several concepts, such as disturbing bug and paramecia lines like in Swarm or Mud and Water, and the backtracking concept seen in Carried Away or Spiral. His levels' leisureliness, ingenuity, and aesthetics of his levels are the reason are so well-received.

In CCLP5, his levels The Unwinding and Sho Sheng Shui both had themes of dense puzzle rooms that require solving in a very specific order. The Unwinding in particular was universally praised and received the fourth highest average rating after voting concluded.

CC2 Main Game

Joshua's original CC2 levels were designed in the late 1990s, and are (like most levels from that time period) somewhat hit-or-miss by today's standards. However, some of them are quite revered by the community, and they are notable for being almost the only levels in the main game to explore advanced concepts such as yellow teleport puzzles, bowling ball and rover inventories, replacement of entities on clone machines, and item dropping. Rebel was the highest rated level during the original CC2 voting.