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[[File:CC Flareon.png|thumb|300px|right|Josh's favorite Pokémon (Flareon) in CC Tile World graphics]]

'''Josh Lee''', also known by his alias '''Flareon350''', is a well known Chipster who is notable for his consistent level design. He is also notable for his strong liking of the Pokémon franchise, as his main avatar is his favorite Pokémon, which Josh created himself using CCEdit 2.0.

Josh discovered Chip's Challenge on a Windows 95 computer around mid 2000 at the age of 8. He played the original game, but never did complete every level upon first playing. Levels he skipped included majority of the harder ones; such as [[Totally Unfair]], [[Blobdance]], [[Doublemaze]], and [[Force Field]]. He eventually went back to complete these levels in time.

After playing the game, Josh created some 700+ levels on pieces of paper, since at the time that computer couldn't be used for internet access. Eventually sometime in the early 2000s, Josh found out about the existence of a [[ChipEdit] via using a different computer and he began to design many different types of levels. Unfortunately, he could not test them because Chip's Challenge couldn't be played on that computer.

Josh has been designing levels since as early as 2004. His first goal in level design was to create a set of 210 levels. He made up to 124 levels until the computer being used at the time crashed and eventually the motherboard wiped everything clean, thus deleting the set entirely before ever being publicly released. Because of this incident, Josh refused to redesign every level, since he did not remember any of the ones he made. This ultimately led to a long hiatus. After hearing of CCLP3's submission pool, he once again started the goal in 2009 and released his first levelset; ''JoshL, ''which'' ''consists of 202 levels, most of which consist of invalid tiles and sequels to numerous CC1 levels. Because of this, none of his levels made it into CCLP3, however, one level ([[Ruined World]]) came close to being included in the set, which eventually made its way into CCLP1. In 2012, Josh went back to this set and heavily modified it to be Lynx compatible by removing 82 levels and editing some to remove invalid tiles. It was also renamed to JoshL1, although the set is still tedious and not recommended to play. Looking back at these sets, Josh realizes his errors and mistakes in design and is quite embarrassed by this set's existence. He did not officially join the Chip's Challenge community until sometime in 2012, where he was ultimately noticed.  

Throughout 2010, he took a break from CC and focused on various other games. After seeing its release and playing CCLP3, Josh returned to the world of CC in 2011 and began to work on another levelset, being entirely Lynx compatible from the start, under the title [[JoshL2]]. Consisting of 150 levels, this set showed a lot of improvement since his first set. Although this level set went under various updates with level arranging and replacing, the set was officially done in 2012. This levelset was also let's played by BigOto2 throughout 2011 and 2012, with 55 episodes in total and the last 13 featuring Josh as a co-host via Skype chat.  

After finishing JoshL2, Josh felt motivated enough to work on another set of levels, which would be called ''JoshL3''. This set's goal was to hold levels of higher difficulty which JoshL2 lacked, however, because of the consistent updates to this set, this goal wasn't possible. Originally JoshL3 was set at 80 levels, however, because of the construction of another level set, it was then merged to a 149 levelset. This became an issue to some community members and to Josh himself, so 49 levels were removed and placed into Josh's reject levelset; ''JCCLPRejects, ''thus JoshL3 was official at 100 levels.

At the time CCLP1 was announced and level submissions were opened, Josh began work on another set of levels, however, with CCLP1 in mind. JCCLP (Josh's Chip's Challenge Level Pack) which would consist of the best levels of Josh's creation throughout his previous 3 sets. 19 levels were taken from JoshL1, 35 from JoshL2, and 30 from JoshL3. '''(Note: The version of JoshL3 that was used for JCCLP's construction consisted of 80 levels) '''Josh also created 65 brand new levels, to keep the set original, which would make JCCLP a 149 level set. While only 125 levels from this set were eligible for consideration, 12 levels from this set got into CCLP1. This set is Josh's most popular level set, with over 800 downloads at CCZone, however, this is because of the constant updates to the set. It was released April 2012 and finalized in May 2013.  

Following JCCLP's release, Josh decided to release his rejects set, appropriately titled "JCCLPRejects". While unlike many reject sets, this one consists of levels that were actually rejected from JCCLP or any of the JoshL sets. It also holds levels that showcase a potential level concept or an attempt to making a level that the design wasn't good enough to Josh. It also holds some level mods or running joke/inside joke type levels. This set currently holds 218 levels and can be found on pieguy's site.  

Because of the confusion with JoshL3 and how JCCLP became a huge success in his level designing career, Josh began to work on his "remake" of what JoshL3 was supposed to fulfill, being levels of higher difficulty. This then became ''JoshL4'', which holds 80 levels. 25 of said levels are also from his JCCLP set, due to high demand. Unlike his other sets, JoshL4 is the most difficult of any set of Josh's creations, although it doesn't nearly match up to CCLP3's later levels. This set only went through 32 updates, 3 of which were level replacements. J.B. Lewis let's played this levelset via YouTube, giving review of some levels and criticizing others for how difficult they are.

Because of this criticism, Josh felt it was right to work on levelset with the same mindset he had back in JoshL2's creation. Consisting of levels of moderate difficulty and a few hard levels, ''JoshL5'' began development Christmas 2013 and was completed in July 2014. The goal of this set was 100 levels and was reached successfully, however, 10 levels exclusively from JCCLP that weren't placed in JoshL4 were placed here, and 2 levels were not created by Josh at all. Because Josh made the goal of 100 levels successfully, he decided to push his limits even further and added 49 more levels. The set ultimate took roughly a year to create, being released at 149 levels on December 23rd, 2014. It was let's played by J.B. Lewis once again via YouTube throughout the creation process.

Following completion of CC2, Josh decided to work on his first levelset of that game, calling it "Flareon1", to show no connection with his JoshL sets and instead going under his alias name. As of June 23rd, 2016, it holds 55 levels, however, there are some levels in development. He has since taken a hiatus from CC2 level design, however, will return to designing someday. Flareon1 has since been taken offline as a means to overhaul it before releasing it again.

This particular level was created at the end of the JoshL3 era, and thus has become a signature level to Josh as it is his favorite Pokémon. Flareon, is the only level to be recurring throughout Josh's levelsets. It is usually the last level of every JoshL set, however, there is an exception, mainly to JCCLP. JoshL, JCCLP2, and Walls of CCLP3 are the only sets to not have this level; it doesn't fit into the context of Walls of CCLP3 and JoshL, and JCCLP2 is meant to focus on the levels themselves. This level was also reformatted in JoshL4, having more gameplay involved than the one's in JoshL1, 2 ,3 and JCCLP. It was again remastered for JoshL6, removing a few busts and adding more chips compared to JoshL4/5's version, however, there are still extra items. For JoshL7, this level was once again updated to remove all extra content. The blue wall mazes were also changed to make it less trivial compared to previous versions. Its time limit was also increased to 350 to match with Josh's CC username.

[http://i.imgur.com/k0OlbOg.png JoshL1-3/JCCLP version]

*JCCLP - Level 136 (Flareon's number in the Pokémon franchise is 136)

As of 12/1/2018, He has been playing through ZK-Adventure - a 350-levelset created by Zane Kuecks specifically for Josh to LP that combines Zane's levels from his ZK sets. He is also playing through Walls of CCLP4. He also still plans on finishing TSAlpha, since its construction is finally completed. In the future, he plans to Let's Play sets such as Walls of CCLP1 by J.B. Lewis, and possibly other CC2 sets.  

*Most of his inspiration in level design is from the music he listens to, which is normally OSTs from video games, such as ones from various Pokémon titles.