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[[File:CC Flareon.png|thumb|300px|right|A mosaic level of Josh's favorite Pokémon, Flareon, in [[Tile World]] graphics]]
[[File:CC Flareon.png|thumb|300px|right|A mosaic level of Josh's favorite Pokémon, Flareon, in [[Tile World]] graphics]]
'''Josh Lee''', also known by his CC alias '''Flareon350''', is a well known [[Chipsters|Chipster]] who is often noted for his consistent level design and strong liking of the ''Pokémon'' franchise, as his main avatar is his favorite Pokémon, [https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Flareon_(Pok%C3%A9mon) Flareon,] which Josh created himself using [[CCEdit]].
'''Josh Lee''', also known by his CC alias '''Flareon350''', is a well known [[Chipsters|Chipster]] who is often noted for his consistent level design and strong liking of the ''Pokémon'' franchise, as his main avatar is his favorite Pokémon, [https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Flareon_(Pok%C3%A9mon) Flareon,] which Josh created himself using [[CCEdit]].
 
Josh was one of two co-leaders of the CCLP4 staff and the head of the CCLP5 staff.


==[[:Category:Levels designed by Josh Lee|Levels in official packs]]==
==[[:Category:Levels designed by Josh Lee|Levels in official packs]]==
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| 149 || [[Mental Marvel Monastery]]  
| 149 || [[Mental Marvel Monastery]]  
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=== [[Chip's Challenge Level Pack 5|CCLP5]] ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! # !! Name
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| 1 || [[Lesson Zero]]
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| 5 || [[Fragmented Lamina]]
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| 8 || [[Trick or Trap]]
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| 11 || [[Pyramid Scheme]]
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| 13 || [[Cardboard Cutout]]
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| 15 || [[Heterochromia]]
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| 17 || [[There Goes the Neighborhood]]
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| 18 || [[Press Any Button to Continue]]
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| 19 || [[Hue and Saturation]]
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| 22 || [[Capim Town]]
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| 25 || [[Drops of Jupiter]]
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| 30 || [[Ragged Mountain]]
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| 31 || [[Sealed Chamber]]
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| 32 || [[Socket Shrine]]
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| 34 || [[Spirit River]]
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| 35 || [[Fortune Ravine]]
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| 36 || [[Charmed Ridge]]
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| 38 || [[Exit Exaggeration]]
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| 39 || [[Mysterious Geoglyph]]
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| 43 || [[Verdant Cavern]]
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| 44 || [[Thunderwave Cave]]
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| 46 || [[Axis Point]]
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| 48 || [[Tank Game Reborn]]
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| 52 || [[Magma Cone]]
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| 54 || [[The Slaughterhouse Is Open for Business]]
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| 58 || [[Warehouse of Lost Hopes and Dreams]]
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| 59 || [[Clone Machine Factory]]
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| 60 || [[Fuego Ironworks]]
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| 64 || [[Condemned Facility]]
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| 71 || [[Amethyst Mine]]
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| 76 || [[Yellow Fever]]
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| 82 || [[Encrypted Malware]]
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| 84 || [[Piston It Away]]
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| 87 || [[Network Corruption]]
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| 91 || [[Airletter Shop]]
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| 92 || [[Glamorous Diamond Downs]]
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| 106 || [[Slimefield]]
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| 113 || [[Power Plant Peril]]
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| 115 || [[Titanic Monarch]]
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| 120 || [[Fray Manor Isle]]
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| 123 || [[Sandstorm Shelter]]
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| 124 || [[Dig Me Out]]
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| 130 || [[Apocalypse Wow]]
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| 133 || [[Emblazoned Altar]]
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| 146 || [[Broken Paradise]]
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| 149 || [[Shadow of the Day]]
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===[[Chip's Challenge 2 Level Pack 1|CC2LP1]]===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! # !! Name
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| 8 || [[Brigand Land]]
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| 26 || [[My Antisocial Friend]]
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| 30 || [[The Electric Company]]
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| 47 || [[Lowlife]]
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| 57 || [[Poison Backyard]]
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| 72 || [[Rage Rooms]]
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| 73 || [[Foiled Again]]
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| 75 || [[Excavation Alley]]
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| 79 || [[Marine Science Museum]]
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| 80 || [[Forest Hub]]
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| 88 || [[Highlighter]]
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| 92 || [[Cosmic Dump]]
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| 98 || [[Gentlemen's Club]]
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| 101 || [[Ectoplasm]]
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| 113 || [[Casper]]
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| 122 || [[Pushing Pull Doors]]
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| 130 || [[Northlands]]
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| 133 || [[Boiled in Blood]]
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| 136 || [[Eastbound]]
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| 145 || [[Lady in the Water]]
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| 151 || [[No Swap Zone]]
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| 163 || [[Boot Warehouse]]
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| 164 || [[Deadline Extension]]
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| 178 || [[Tank of Justice]]
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| 189 || [[Liquid Defense]]
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== History ==
== History ==
Josh discovered Chip's Challenge on a Windows 95 computer around mid-2000 at the age of 8. He played the original game, but didn't complete every level. Levels he skipped included the majority of the harder ones, such as [[Totally Unfair]], [[Blobdance]], [[Doublemaze]], and [[Force Field]]. He eventually went back to complete these levels in time.
Josh discovered Chip's Challenge on a Windows 3.1 computer around mid-2000 at the age of 8. He played the original game, but didn't complete every level. Levels he skipped included the 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 [[ChipEdit]] 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.
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 [[ChipEdit]] 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.
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He later heard about [[Chip's Challenge Level Pack 2]]; however, like with the original game and the lack of being able to download it, he could not play it at the time. He instead watched many of the [[AVI]] solutions available for its levels, which served as inspirations for his first level designs.
He later heard about [[Chip's Challenge Level Pack 2]]; however, like with the original game and the lack of being able to download it, he could not play it at the time. He instead watched many of the [[AVI]] solutions available for its levels, which served as inspirations for his first level designs.


==Level sets==
== Level Sets ==
Josh has been making custom [[level set]]s 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 from the game.


After hearing of [[Chip's Challenge Level Pack 3|CCLP3]] submissions, he once again started the goal in 2009 and released his first level set, ''JoshL,'' which consisted of 202 levels, most of which contained [[invalid tile]]s 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 [[Chip's Challenge Level Pack 1|CCLP1]]. In 2012, Josh went back to this set and heavily modified it to be [[Lynx ruleset|Lynx]] compatible by removing 82 levels and editing some to remove invalid tiles, and renamed it to ''JoshL1''. Josh, however, says the set is still tedious and not recommended to play. He did not officially join the Chip's Challenge community until sometime in 2012, where he would eventually be noticed.  
Josh has created a vast variety of CC1 level sets, ranging in all areas of difficulty. His most notable sets are:


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 level set, 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. After numerous level arranging and replacing updates, the set was officially done in 2012. [[Trevor Hedges]] made a Let's Play of this set throughout 2011 and 2012, with 55 episodes in total and the last 13 featuring Josh as a co-host via Skype chat.
*JoshL1 - designed around 2009
*JoshL2 - designed between 2011-2012
*JoshL3 - designed between 2012-2013
*JoshL4 - designed in 2013
*JoshL5 - designed between 2014-2015
*JoshL6 - designed between 2015-2016
*JoshL7 - designed in 2017
*Walls of CCLP3 - designed in 2018
*Trading Places (collaborated with Jeffrey Bardon) - designed from 2019-2021


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, Josh could not seem to accomplish this goal. Originally JoshL3 was set at 80 levels, however, because of the failed construction of another level set, it was then merged to a 149 level set. This became an issue to some community members and to Josh himself, so 49 levels were removed; thus, JoshL3 was officially complete at 100 levels.


At the time CCLP1 was announced and level submissions were opened, Josh began work on another set of levels with CCLP1 in mind. First releasing in April 2012, though not finalized until May 2013, he titled this new pack ''JCCLP (Josh's Chip's Challenge Level Pack)'', which contained 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. 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.  
He has also created three "best of" sets titled Josh's Chip's Challenge Level Pack (JCCLP), which features his best levels across his sets based off the era they were made. A rejects set going along with it titled JCCLPRejects also exists which showcases levels that were either rejected from a working set at any given point or made in a non-serious manner.  


Following JCCLP's release, Josh decided to release his rejects set, appropriately titled "JCCLPRejects". This set consists of levels that were rejected from JCCLP or any of the JoshL sets, including the 49 levels that were rejected from JoshL3, as well as levels that showcase a potential level concept or an attempt at making a level that Josh did not consider good enough to be featured in one of his main sets. It also holds some modifications to existing levels or levels based around a running or inside joke. This set currently holds 220 levels and can be found on [[David Stolp]]'s site.
*JCCLP1 - uses levels from JoshL1, JoshL2, and JoshL3
*JCCLP2 - uses levels from JoshL4, JoshL5, and an older version of JoshL6
*JCCLP3 - uses levels from a newer version of JoshL6, JoshL7, Walls of CCLP3, and Trading Places


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 the 65 new levels in JCCLP, due to high demand. Unlike his other sets, JoshL4 is the most difficult of any set of Josh's creations, although it fortunately doesn't nearly match up to the hardest levels in CCLP3. This set only went through 32 updates, 3 of which were level replacements. [[J.B. Lewis]] made a Let's Play of this level set in via YouTube, giving review of some levels and criticizing others for how difficult they are.
In addition, Josh has also compiled a best of best of set, titled JoshL0, that consists of 200 levels with levels across the three JCCLP sets.


Because of this criticism, Josh felt it was right to work on a new level set 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 ultimately 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.
Currently, he has at least two new level sets in slow progress; Walls of CC1 (collaborated with J.B. Lewis and VT) and JoshL8.


As soon as JoshL5 was completed at 100 levels, JCCLP2 became official and was released in August 2014, with 149 levels, most of which were from all of the JoshL sets, and some from JCCLPRejects. Only 2 levels were created fresh for this set; however, they later reappeared in JoshL5. Josh claimed that this time, JCCLP2 was not a best-of compilation of his designs and instead just a new collection of 149 of his levels.


After JoshL5's completion, Josh began work on ''JoshL6'', and was initially released with 40 brand new levels of arranged difficulty on May 23rd, 2015 - five days before CC2's release. However, because of a loss of interest in designing levels for CC2 and with CCLP4 being officially announced, he decided to expand JoshL6, bringing the total up to 90. However, due to yet another spike of level ideas following CCLP4's level submission testing and voting process as well as the failure of a set that was being worked on, Josh decided to extend JoshL6 by creating 59 additional brand new levels and ultimately make the set have a total of 149. The 90 level version of this set still exists online, though will never be updated.
For CC2, he has created three level sets under a different name to remain distinct from his JoshL sets:


Later in May 2016, Josh overhauled and rebuilt JCCLP2, scrapping the old version entirely due to the fact the older version was rushed. The new and final version of this set still holds 149 levels but now consists of levels only found in Josh's latter three sets - JoshL4, 5, and 6. 25 levels were from JoshL4, 73 from JoshL5, and 47 from JoshL6 (the pre-149 level release version). Two JCCLPRejects levels were also included in this set due to getting positive criticism by various community members, as well as two new levels specifically designed for this set.
*Flareon1
*Flareon2
*FlareonRejects


Following completion of CC2, Josh decided to work on his first CC2 level set, calling it ''Flareon1'' to show no connection with his JoshL sets. In June 2016, he began an extended hiatus from CC2 level design, and took Flareon1 offline as a means to overhaul it before releasing it again. On February 2, 2019, he finally re-released Flareon1 with 40 levels after nearly 3 years, and on May 10 of the same year, he released a 6-level demo of ''Flareon2'' to release his new levels before submissions close for the upcoming [[Chip's Challenge 2 Level Pack 1|CC2LP1]].


During the year of 2017, Josh worked on ''JoshL7'', a new CC1 set entry in the JoshL series which held 70 brand-new levels. He first released it on February 20th, 2018. These levels were made after playing through CCLP4 and other new custom sets. Like JoshL4 and 5 before it, this set was once again LPed by J.B. Lewis, in which it was praised for showing originality and being very fun.Following this in the months of March to November 2018, Josh worked on ''Walls of CCLP3'', a set ultimately inspired by [[Jeffrey Bardon]]'s ''Walls of CCLP4''. This set contained 149 entirely new levels built out of the wall patterns or other prominent [[tile]]s of CCLP3.
He also created a few "meme" level sets, including:


On April 29, 2019, Josh released ''JCCLP3'', yet another 149-level best-of set for Josh's designs featuring 23 new levels from the 149-level release of JoshL6, 43 levels from JoshL7, 66 levels from Walls of CCLP3, 2 levels from JCCLPRejects, and the remaining 15 levels from a secret design project Josh has been working on. The release date of this new project is currently not set, but these 15 levels were included as a sort-of teaser for the set in the future.
*CC1 Blobs Edition with replacing every monster in the original game with a blob
*Micro Chips and Micro CCLP2, shrinking down the size of the original levels from each set to be as small and faithful as possible
*A Few Key Themed Levels, which consists of levels specifically focused on or around keys that he has created


== Level design and inspiration ==
== Design style and Evolution ==
Josh admits his early levels seen in JoshL1 were mostly ripoffs of existing levels in CC1 and were very lackluster. While he states he is embarrassed of his levels showcased in those sets, he is not ashamed of it, as it was just a step in his career of level design. While constructing JoshL2, despite showing improvements and actual originally in that set, there are still some lackluster levels. This is because he had no real goal with the set, other than to be Lynx-compatible. Josh considers JoshL3 to be a mistake, due to the major updates with level amount and inconsistencies it holds. He originally wanted to focus on more difficult levels but because of the vast amount of updates it has had in the past, he feels he failed to meet this goal. He states that JoshL3 is suppose to be "that lame sequel", though it does hold a few gem levels, including some that made it into CCLP1.


Josh didn't get his real inspiration until JoshL4, where he showed a real consistency in level design. He decided to focus more on level difficulty in JoshL4, since he failed to do so with JoshL3. This ultimately makes this set fall under some of the traps CCLP3 had unfortunately. Because this set was let's played by J.B. Lewis, he received feedback on majority of the levels, as well as the set itself.  
With having designed so many levels across many different level sets, Josh's design style went through several different iterations in hopes to establish a style of his own. Below is some history behind each of his main CC1 sets, how they started and how his overall design style improved and changed over the years.


While the feedback was positive, it made him realize his strive to make more friendly levels, which lead to JoshL5. The goal of this set was to show originality, as well as some interesting concepts and have fun to play levels that aren't nearly as hard as the ones from the previous set. It was once again let's played by J.B. Lewis, receiving great feedback.
=== JoshL/JoshL1 ===


JoshL6 started out as more of a test to see if Josh had more ideas or not. He decided to work on a set that focused more on aesthetics - something that JoshL5 had but didn't entirely focus on. This set also took a different take in design, showcasing monsters on top of various different tiles, something Josh has always admired. This set features levels containing more mazes and even more unseen concepts. It also has very little amounts of sokoban puzzles, something he admits JoshL5 had too much of. JoshL6 is also notable to [[Walls Of level|using wall patterns from other levels]], particularly from CCLP1 levels. This is due to a project attempt that never saw the light of day and because he didn't want to reject the levels built for said project, he placed them into JoshL6 in a later update.
Josh's early levels, what would become JoshL.dat, primarily consisted of ripoffs or sequels to existing levels in CC1 or otherwise, long tedius block pushing levels that lacked in quality. The use of invalid tiles were also heavily used, thanks to the presence of this throughout CCLP2. These two sets were his prime sort of inspiration as they were the only two packs of levels he knew of at the time. This level set contained 202 levels and was submitted for CCLP3 consideration, however, no levels got in thanks to majority of them not being compatible with the Lynx ruleset and Josh not being familiar with it.  


Between Flareon1 and JoshL7, Josh attempted a project titled Walls of CCLP1, a set that would have had new levels built within the wall configurations of CCLP1. This choice was inspired by Joshua Bone's CC2 set Walls of CC1. Unfortunately, this set was abandoned about 20 levels in most for reasons such as lack of ideas and the motivation to do such a project just wasn't had at the time. The levels that were made here were later placed in JoshL6.
Over the course of his design career, this pack of levels would later be revised into JoshL1, removing all levels containing invalid tiles and fixing other issues to make it Lynx compatible, reducing the level count to 120. This revised version includes levels that got into [[Chip's Challenge Level Pack 1]], such as [[Ruined World]], [[Heat Conductor]], and [[Design Swap]].


Following this failed project, Josh made some levels for a [[CCZone]] create competition, as well as a few other levels, which unintentionally started JoshL7. It was decided to pursue with the project and continue to build for it, despite the interest in CC2 designing at the time. With this set, Josh focused less on aesthetics and more on the levels themselves, making them more involved or showcase a concept that was underrepresented.
=== JoshL2 ===


Walls of CCLP3, in some spirits, can be portrayed as JoshL7 part 2, since its construction started only a month after JoshL7 was complete. However, this set was more a test to see if Josh was able to pull the idea off, as he had attempted it with CCLP1 two years prior. This set of levels features further level concepts as well as experiments with tile combinations, particularly with [[blob]]s and other monsters. This set also features original sokobans and block puzzles, albeit some are inspired by other levels. This, JoshL7, and the new JoshL6 are Josh's personal favorite sets of his.
Following CCLP3's release, along with a year long break away from all things Chip's Challenge, Josh began work on JoshL2, the sequel to his first set. The overall objective was simply to build a set that was compatible with Lynx, which helped Josh study the key differences between it and the MS ruleset he was used to. This set contains 150 levels and would see some improvements of design quality compared to the first, such as a prominent showcase of Josh's knack of designing variety levels, part in thanks to playing CCLP3 and the vast array of concepts shown in that set. However, there still remained a few renaments of his prior set's sufferings with some heavy block pushing levels or small, short, and easy levels for the sake of quantity. Despite that, it still holds quite a good amount of original concepts. This set hosts the home to levels such as [[Frozen Labyrinth]] and [[Sapphire Cavern]] (under a different title), which also made their way into CCLP1. This was also one of many sets of Josh's to have gotten Let's Played, this one in particular done by [[Trevor Hedges]].
 
This set's general positive feedback eventually led to Josh joining the CC community as he was previously unfamiliar with one existing.
 
=== JoshL3 ===
 
With the generally positive feedback on JoshL2 and with joining the level design community, Josh began the next numbered set right away. This set's prime focus was intended to experiment with a number of different ideas thanks to a plethora of level sets belonging to other designers being easily available. Sadly, this shaped into a bad direction as the set opted into several false starts such as trying pgchip's ice block patch for ice block levels, designing levels that felt too similar to the previous sets, and other design styles not blending well with Josh. This eventually unraveled into a set of levels that Josh is not fond of and considers this to be a step down in his design career as he tried too many different things at once. Although, a few of its levels like [[Squared in a Circle]], [[Flames and Ashes]], and [[California]] made their way into CCLP1 and another one, [[Duplex]], later got into [[Chip's Challenge Level Pack 4]]. This pack contains 100 levels in total.
 
=== JoshL4 ===
 
After a brief design break, Josh started work on JoshL4 with the ultimate focus of having levels that were considered difficult. This is where he showed a real consistency in level design. A lot of his designs were improved substantially as his inspirations were becoming more set in place, mainly from [[Tyler Sontag]]'s TS0. This was made more apparent by keeping this set's total at 80 levels, double of what TS0 contained. Due to the nature of this set, it falls under some of the nasty traps, in similar nature to CCLP3's difficult levels. This was the first of Josh's sets to be ordered by difficulty instead of by design date as well.
 
Like JoshL2, this set was also let's played, this time by fellow avid designer, [[J.B. Lewis]], who gave constructive feedback on these levels and would help shape Josh's design career further with his next project, which was striving for more friendly levels. Some notable levels from this set were selected for inclusion into CCLP4, including [[Sealed Doors in the Spacecraft]], [[Frozen Over]], and [[Fireworks Factory]].
 
=== JoshL5 ===
 
This set followed suit not too long after JoshL4, giving priority to easier and more fun to play levels opposed to lengthy, difficult ones. Unlike the previous set, this one is still ordered by design date, with random difficulty spikes scattered throughout the set. His consistent design style improved even further, especially with its many different styles of gameplay, along with a heavy emphasis on medium difficulty variety levels, something Josh would come to really enjoy building the most. This set was also let's played by J.B. and would later do so with the rest of his future sets listed below. This set houses many levels that were included into CCLP4 such as [[Beautiful Struggle]], [[In the Walls of Gravel Castle]], and [[Bombs Are a Beautiful Thing]].
 
=== JoshL6 ===
 
Initially, JoshL5 was intended to be last of his CC1 designs for a long while as it was assumed ideas were starting to become scarce. CC2 was also released around this time and designers were quick to put out new content for the game, including Josh himself. But after some frustration with CC2's built in level editor and a lack of an alternative, along with playing several other CC1 sets such as Ultimate Chip 4 and Ultimate Chip 5 both by [[Jeffrey Bardon]] and Zane's ZK3 and ZK3-A, he felt inspired enough to try to pursue the project.
 
This set's focus shifted more to aesthetics and how levels look from editor view, although keeping the fun factor intact with its content, which largely emphasized unusual tile combinations such as monsters atop of certain elements that still allowed for Lynx compatibly, along with many mazes and unseen concepts up to this point. Walls of levels were prominent here as well, especially upon the final update. It was initially released at 40 levels and later updated to a total count of 90, before submissions for CCLP4 closed. Many levels from this were selected for official set inclusion, such as [[Fire Is My Enemy]], [[Nectar Meadow]], [[Flipper Departments]], and [[World of a Thousand Flames]].
 
This was the intended final level count for the set, however, due to circumstances surrounding the next intended design project falling through, Josh updated it one last time with 59 new levels, half of which were designed for said failed project, totaling it to 149.
 
Josh has left the 90 level version available for download to this day, for those that prefer it.
 
=== JoshL7 ===
 
A CCZone create competition was held February 2017, using the walls of CCLP1 to make a new level within them. Josh participated with three entries and in doing so, another string of inspiration soon followed into what would shape into JoshL7. The main focus this time being a combination of everything previously learned from the past several sets, difficulty, aesthetics, gameplay styles, ultimately balancing them all out into 70 levels. Some level genres that Josh isn't too keen on designing also appeared here, such as monster dodging and manipulation. In addition, some levels previously seen in prior JoshL sets were repurposed in this one, such as [[Trick or Trap]] using one of Josh's first sokobans and mixing it with recessed walls for a new experience. This level, along with many others like [[Drops of Jupiter]], [[Warehouse of Lost Hopes and Dreams]], and [[Fuego Ironworks]], made it's way into [[Chip's Challenge Level Pack 5]].
 
This is currently the last entry in the JoshL series lineup and is Josh's personal favorite.
 
=== Walls of CCLP3 ===
 
On the tail end of JoshL7, Josh pursued a new project directly inspired by Jeffrey's Walls of CCLP4, though a project like this nagged in the back of his mind since JoshL6's production as it was attempted with CCLP1, but was scrapped for personal reasons but largely due to not having ideas for every template of that set and overall, not feeling ready for the task.
 
Josh would instead utilize CCLP3 as a starting point, knowing its tricky wall layouts would bring new challenges into his design style. Taking everything he learned from prior sets, including other walls of levels designed, and even using concepts not seen done well before. There was a particular focus on mixing blobs with other monsters and building original sokobans that use CC elements as opposed to strictly adapting them from outside sources. Some of these sokobans were notable for being built within a two-tile wide space. [[Socket Shrine]] was the first designed level of this project, using the sockets from [[Toggle Bust]], which later got into CCLP5, along with other such levels as [[Exit Exaggeration]] and [[Apocalypse Wow]], using [[Entrance Examination]] and [[Spiral]] respectively.
 
=== Trading Places ===
 
With the prominent walls of levels throughout level design continuing strong, Jeffrey and Josh teased the idea of building a set together that consisted of using wall templates of each other's latest level sets, Ultimate Chip 6 and JoshL7, along with several from their other respective sets to total it out evenly at 150 levels. This project ended up taking over three years, with each designer building 75 levels apiece and combining into one of the greatest level set collaborations to date. Several levels from Josh's half made it into CCLP5 as well, such as [[Fragmented Lamina]], [[Yellow Fever]], and [[Broken Paradise]].
 
==Future Plans==
 
Shortly after Trading Places completion, interest was expressed to do another collaborative set alongside J.B. Lewis and VT to build Walls of CC1 with CC1 content. Currently this set is in progress and has over 100 levels in total. There are also some possible plans of revisiting certain levels within JoshL2-5, in hopes to modernize them to match Josh's design style today.
 
In addition, there are some unreleased levels for what is tentatively titled JoshL8 that Josh would like to continue and release properly at some point, however, it is currently uncertain if this will continue as original ideas for CC1 levels have come more scarce than ever.
 
Ideally, Josh would like to retire from CC1 level design as he has made countless levels and explored most of what it has to offer and go back to CC2 level designing, continuing with Flareon2 and finding his design style within that game.


==Flareon level==
==Flareon level==
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 level sets. It is usually the last level of every JoshL set, however, there are a few exceptions; JoshL, JCCLP, JCCLP2, and Walls of CCLP3 are the only sets to not have this level, as 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 the JoshL4 version, however, there are still extra items. For JoshL7, this level was once again updated to remove all extra content, and the [[blue wall]] mazes were also changed to be made less trivial compared to previous versions. Its [[time limit]] was also increased to 350 to match with Josh's CC username.
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 level sets. It is usually the last level of every JoshL set, however, there are a few exceptions; JoshL, JCCLP2, JCCLP3, Walls of CCLP3, and Trading Places are the only sets to not have this level, as it doesn't fit into the context of either Walls of CCLP3 or Trading Places and JoshL, and the latter two JCCLPs are meant to focus on the levels themselves. In its original form, it was primarily a mosaic level, featuring little to no meaningful gameplay.
 
This level was later reformatted in JoshL4, having more gameplay involved, including using the [[blue wall]] section to form a maze and key collecting. It was again remastered for JoshL6, removing a few busts that were present and adding more chips compared to the JoshL4 version, however, there are still extra items.  
 
For JoshL7, this level was once again updated to remove all extra content, and the blue wall mazes were also changed to be made less trivial compared to previous versions. Its [[time limit]] was also increased to 350 to match with Josh's CC username.


All four versions of this level can be found here:
All four versions of this level can be found here:
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After Ultimate Chip 5, Josh went on to LP a set known as ''Not_CCLP4'', an April Fool's joke created by the CCLP4 staff claiming to be CCLP4. This set contains some of the most frustrating, obnoxious levels created by the members of the CCLP4 staff over the course of their perspective level designing careers, thereby making the set intentionally bad. Despite this, it was still LP'ed and was close to fully completed, with 146 out of the 149 levels solved. The 3 unsolved ones consisted of levels that would have taken too long to solve and were not LP friendly at all.  
After Ultimate Chip 5, Josh went on to LP a set known as ''Not_CCLP4'', an April Fool's joke created by the CCLP4 staff claiming to be CCLP4. This set contains some of the most frustrating, obnoxious levels created by the members of the CCLP4 staff over the course of their perspective level designing careers, thereby making the set intentionally bad. Despite this, it was still LP'ed and was close to fully completed, with 146 out of the 149 levels solved. The 3 unsolved ones consisted of levels that would have taken too long to solve and were not LP friendly at all.  


Over the course of the next year, he played through ''ZK-Adventure'', a 350-level set created by Zane Kuecks specifically for Josh to LP that combines Zane's levels from his ZK sets. He is currently playing through ''Walls of CCLP4'' by Jeffrey Bardon. In the future, he plans to Let's Play sets such as Walls of CCLP1 by J.B. Lewis, and possibly other CC2 sets.  
Over the course of the next year, he played through ''ZK-Adventure'', a 350-level set created by Zane Kuecks specifically for Josh to LP that combines Zane's levels from his ZK sets. He also played through ''Walls of CCLP4'' by Jeffrey Bardon and ''Walls of CCLP1'' by J.B Lewis. There was an attempt to let's play CC2LP1 but was abruptly ended and has shown no sign of continuing or restarting.


== Scores ==
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===CC1 sets===
===CC1 sets===
*[http://davidstolp.com/old/chips/overall.php?set=JoshL Download JoshL from David Stolp's site]
*[http://davidstolp.com/old/chips/overall.php?set=JoshL Download JoshL from David Stolp's site]
*[http://cczone.invisionzone.com/files/file/23-joshl1dat/ Download JoshL1 from CCZone]
*[https://forum.bitbusters.club/thread-981.html Download JoshL1 from CCZone]
*[http://cczone.invisionzone.com/files/file/12-joshl2dat/ Download JoshL2 from CCZone]
*[https://forum.bitbusters.club/thread-990.html Download JoshL2 from CCZone]
*[http://cczone.invisionzone.com/files/file/211-joshl3/ Download JoshL3 from CCZone]
*[https://forum.bitbusters.club/thread-826.html Download JoshL3 from CCZone]
*[http://cczone.invisionzone.com/files/file/275-joshl4/ Download JoshL4 from CCZone]
*[https://forum.bitbusters.club/thread-791.html Download JoshL4 from CCZone]
*[http://cczone.invisionzone.com/files/file/411-joshl5/ Download JoshL5 from CCZone]
*[https://forum.bitbusters.club/thread-699.html Download JoshL5 from CCZone]
*[http://cczone.invisionzone.com/files/file/463-joshl6/ Download JoshL6 from CCZone]
*[https://forum.bitbusters.club/thread-653.html Download JoshL6 from CCZone]
*[http://cczone.invisionzone.com/files/file/653-joshl7/ Download JoshL7 from CCZone]
*[https://forum.bitbusters.club/thread-488.html Download JoshL7 from CCZone]
*[http://cczone.invisionzone.com/files/file/688-walls-of-cclp3/ Download Walls of CCLP3 from CCZone]
*[https://forum.bitbusters.club/thread-455.html Download Walls of CCLP3 from CCZone]


===CC2 sets===
===CC2 sets===
*[http://cczone.invisionzone.com/files/file/696-flareon1/ Download Flareon1 from CCZone]
*[https://forum.bitbusters.club/thread-448.html Download Flareon1 from CCZone]
*[http://cczone.invisionzone.com/files/file/715-flareon2/ Download Flareon2 from CCZone]
*[https://forum.bitbusters.club/thread-429.html Download Flareon2 from CCZone]


*[http://cczone.invisionzone.com/files/file/697-flareonrejects/ Download FlareonRejects from CCZone]
*[https://forum.bitbusters.club/thread-447.html Download FlareonRejects from CCZone]


===JCCLP series===
===JCCLP series===
*[https://bitbusters.club/yahoo/JCCLP.dat Download JCCLP from Chip's Challenge Yahoo! group]
*[https://bitbusters.club/yahoo/JCCLP.dat Download JCCLP from Chip's Challenge Yahoo! group]
*[http://cczone.invisionzone.com/files/file/564-jcclp2/ Download JCCLP2 from CCZone]
*[https://forum.bitbusters.club/thread-564.html Download JCCLP2 from CCZone]
*[http://cczone.invisionzone.com/files/file/710-jcclp3/ Download JCCLP3 from CCZone]
*[https://forum.bitbusters.club/thread-434.html Download JCCLP3 from CCZone]


*[http://davidstolp.com/old/chips/overall.php?set=JCCLPRejects Download JCCLPRejects from David Stolp's site]
*[http://davidstolp.com/old/chips/overall.php?set=JCCLPRejects Download JCCLPRejects from David Stolp's site]
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