Chip's Challenge 2 Level Pack 1

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Chip's Challenge 2 Level Pack 1 or CC2LP1 is a community-created level set, the first sequel to Chip's Challenge 2. It was released on October 9, 2020.

History

Shortly after Chip's Challenge 2's release, there were discussions about creating a fan-made sequel to the main CC2 set, similar to CCLP2 for CC1. Such plans were soon put on hold in favor of CCLP4.

Several more discussions on the subject took place, until October 1, 2018, when Tyler Sontag started a survey regarding the potential set to determine, among other things, how many levels the set should have, what its name should be, and what levels should be allowed. Following the results of the survey, submissions were opened on October 31, 2018. Following further discussions, the full rules for submissions were posted on February 5, 2019. On February 14, it was announced that submissions would close on May 31.

Submissions closed on June 1, 2019; a total of 1,406 levels by 35 designers were submitted. However, a few designers later withdrew some of their levels from consideration; as a consequence, exactly 1,400 appeared in voting.

From June 1 to July 12, there was a "fixing period" where designers could make slight modifications to their levels to fix busts or just to make small aesthetic improvements. Voting began on July 16 and ultimately closed on June 7, 2020. Voting was initially scheduled to end on May 2, 2020, but following unexpected downtime of the voting site, the deadline was extended to May 16. Following further issues, and lack of cooperation from voting administrator H2O, the voting site was transferred to bitbusters.club, and the deadline was extended again to June 7.

On September 25, it was announced that the final set would be released on October 9, 2020. The trailer was released on September 27 and the final set as planned on October 9, 2020.

List of CC2LP1 levels

# Level Title Time Limit Level Designer
1 Island Beginnings 200 Joshua Bone
2 Wrong of Way 400 Andrew Menzies
3 A Little Help 250 Zane Kuecks
4 Cave Diving 12 Joshua Bone
5 Button Museum 400 Andrew Menzies
6 How to Item Drop Like a Champ 600 Joshua Bone
7 Tori 300 H2O
8 Brigand Land 300 Josh Lee
9 What's a Girl to Do? 300 Jeffrey Bardon
10 Blocksmith 500 Tyler Sontag
11 When One Door Closes --- mobius
Mueller
12 Spreading Like Wildfire 450 Jeffrey Bardon
13 Temporary Housing 250 Jeffrey Bardon
14 Getting Off Track 400 Jeffrey Bardon
15 Slip Up 400 mobius
16 A Simple Case of Mistaken Identity 250 Jeffrey Bardon
17 Key Keeper 200 mobius
18 Dialectic Materialism 600 Joshua Bone
19 Restricted Areas 420 Jeffrey Bardon
20 Tetromino Trek 340 Andrew Menzies
21 Stepping With Stones 120 ncrecc
22 Wire You Doing This 500 Jeffrey Bardon
23 Trans-Pachipic Partnership 250 Jeffrey Bardon
24 If Walls Could Speak 250 Joshua Bone
25 Solitary Alignment 320 Jeffrey Bardon
26 My Antisocial Friend 300 Josh Lee
27 Dropping In 400 Jeffrey Bardon
28 Bootiful 120 H2O
29 Secret Escape Tunnel 300 chipster1059
30 The Electric Company 450 Josh Lee
31 A Helping Hand 230 Jeffrey Bardon
32 Ball of Blocks 120 Vehudur
33 Trial by Fire 500 Jeffrey Bardon
34 Relics of a Lost Age 555 Joshua Bone
35 Bowling in the Sewer 300 Jeffrey Bardon
36 Metalhead 150 Tyler Sontag
37 Haunted Swamp 400 Jeffrey Bardon
38 Prism Prison 250 J.B. Lewis
39 Slime Minister 300 Tyler Sontag
40 A Real Thinker 300 Joshua Bone
41 Teeth on Edge 250 Tyler Sontag
42 Mellow Yellow, Hello 380 Jeffrey Bardon
43 Tulip Garden 250 Tyler Sontag
44 Caught Flatfooted 300 Jeffrey Bardon
45 Settlement of Arrakis 350 Jeffrey Bardon
46 Axis 300 J.B. Lewis
47 Lowlife 300 Josh Lee
48 Get Behind Me, Satan 200 mobius
49 Sokobomb 300 J.B. Lewis
50 Point Nemo 250 H2O
51 Faces in the Mirror 500 Joshua Bone
52 Stopgap Measure 600 Joshua Bone
53 In a Minefield 120 H2O
54 Green Wrangler --- Tyler Sontag
55 Warning: Oncoming Maze 300 Andrew Menzies
56 Asceticism 330 Jeffrey Bardon
57 Poison Backyard 200 Josh Lee
58 Caveat Emptor 550 Joshua Bone
59 Set in Motion 120 H2O
60 Green Thumb 250 Jeffrey Bardon
61 Broken Railyard 399 Indyindeed
62 Sosie 500 H2O
63 Swivel Tombs 500 mobius
64 Flowers of Power 270 J.B. Lewis
65 Left Behind Again 400 Jeffrey Bardon
66 Insane Asylum 200 chipster1059
67 Before My Very Eyes 700 Joshua Bone
68 Pipe Maze 500 Andrew Menzies
69 Nameplate Stamping Facility 150 Andrew Menzies
70 Multiplicare 300 H2O
71 Hyacinth 350 Jeffrey Bardon
72 Rage Rooms 300 Josh Lee
73 Foiled Again 500 Josh Lee
74 The Floodgates Open 400 mobius
75 Excavation Alley 300 Josh Lee
76 Three Mile Island 400 Jeffrey Bardon
77 Repeaters 500 Joshua Bone
78 Blocked In 500 Andrew Menzies
79 Marine Science Museum 500 Josh Lee
80 Forest Hub 600 Josh Lee
81 Bomb Blockade 500 Ruben Spaans
82 Bit Player 200 H2O
83 Electric Feel 500 Andrew Menzies
84 Avec des Reserves 500 H2O
85 Double Agent 250 Tyler Sontag
86 Hydrochloric Acid Factory Disaster 650 Andrew Menzies
87 Of the Roses 600 Joshua Bone
88 Highlighter 350 Josh Lee
89 Chip and Melinda Go Skating 500 Tyler Sontag
90 Time in a Bottle --- J.B. Lewis
91 chipdied.wmv 400 Andrew Menzies
92 Cosmic Dump 600 Josh Lee
93 Warp 400 H2O
94 Various Hues of Blue 450 Jeffrey Bardon
95 Strike! 350 Tyler Sontag
96 Sentinel Beach 450 Jeffrey Bardon
97 Around the Corner 800 Joshua Bone
98 Gentlemen's Club 540 Josh Lee
99 Delirium 470 Jeffrey Bardon
100 Treasure Collection 550 Joshua Bone
101 Ectoplasm 400 Josh Lee
102 Haystack 350 H2O
103 Powder Monkey 600 H2O
104 Filled Out in Triplicate 450 Jeffrey Bardon
105 Remote Detonator 500 Tyler Sontag
106 Cold Lazarus 500 mobius
107 Complex Complex --- Ruben Spaans
108 Virtue Is Its Own Reward 360 H2O
109 Present Push --- mobius
110 Hoopla 600 Joshua Bone
111 Ruin Rush 125 Jeffrey Bardon
112 The Amazing Vortex 600 Joshua Bone
113 Casper 300 Josh Lee
114 Pairing Off 291 Jeffrey Bardon
115 Cheese 500 H2O
116 Snail Simulator 2019 300 Tyler Sontag
117 Get Your Hands Dirty 450 Jeffrey Bardon
118 Phantoms 5 H2O
119 Confetti 350 Donnie B.
120 Ultimate Roller Priorities 200 chipster1059
121 Permutation 400 Tyler Sontag
122 Pushing Pull Doors 450 Josh Lee
123 Bar 500 H2O
124 Waterfall 600 Tyler Sontag
125 Touka 5 H2O
126 Be Optimal or Be Dead 300 Tyler Sontag
127 One Good Turn 400 Jeffrey Bardon
128 Line 300 H2O
129 Small Matters 340 Indyindeed
130 Northlands 700 Josh Lee
131 Wormhole in the Sun 600 chipster1059
132 Furi 500 H2O
133 Boiled in Blood 550 Josh Lee
134 The 34 Primroses 500 chipster1059
135 Military Intelligence 400 Eric Schmidt
136 Eastbound 550 Josh Lee
137 Meeting in the Aisle 600 Tyler Sontag
138 Greedy Twin 300 Eric Schmidt
139 Reverse Osmosis --- J.B. Lewis
140 Title Deferred 550 Joshua Bone
141 Thin Blue Line 400 Joshua Bone
142 Aten: Disk of the Sun 600 H2O
143 Wallcrawling 600 Tyler Sontag
144 Marktkanaal --- Joshua Bone
145 Lady in the Water 500 Josh Lee
146 Quadrathlon 750 Andrew Menzies
147 Fill in the Blanks 500 Tyler Sontag
148 Total Eclipse of the Port 600 Andrew Menzies
149 Bye Bye Bye 100 Andrew Menzies
150 Joint Effort 650 H2O
151 No Swap Zone 400 Josh Lee
152 Flamechanger 650 Tyler Sontag
153 Slow-Motion Hallway Fight Sequence 600 J.B. Lewis
154 Autopilot 400 Tyler Sontag
155 Number Field 600 H2O
156 Uptown Decisions 700 Joshua Bone
157 Archival Footage 540 Tyler Sontag
158 The Gift of Giving 800 chipster1059
Andrew Menzies
159 Cut the Ice --- H2O
160 Sneak Around 600 Joshua Bone
161 Chaos to Metastable 600 Tyler Sontag
162 Ode to a Tank Crossing the Road 628 David Stolp
Miika Toukola
163 Boot Warehouse 350 Josh Lee
164 Deadline Extension 630 Josh Lee
chipster1059
165 Cold Comfort 333 H2O
166 Triple-B Battery 640 Eric Schmidt
167 Wizard's Prison --- Vehudur
168 Aquatos Sewer System 350 Jeffrey Bardon
169 Love and Theft 480 mobius
170 Circuit City 700 Tyler Sontag
171 Fuse --- J.B. Lewis
172 Anarchaeology 500 Tyler Sontag
173 Tiny Isle Reshuffled 500 Jeffrey Bardon
174 Objectification 450 Tyler Sontag
175 Mobile Cannon Mr. McCallahan 700 Jeffrey Bardon
176 Double Stop 600 Andrew Menzies
177 The Wrong Direction 670 Jeffrey Bardon
178 Tank of Justice 600 Tyler Sontag
Josh Lee
179 Oversaturated Contrast 650 Jeffrey Bardon
180 Slither 555 Tyler Sontag
181 Bringin' Down the House 140 Andrew Menzies
182 Two Minds 360 H2O
183 Triple Threat 666 Jeffrey Bardon
184 Production Line 999 Andrew Menzies
185 Bigger Boulder Alley 999 Jeffrey Bardon
186 Pushing the Boundaries 999 Andrew Menzies
187 Return Strategies --- Joshua Bone
188 Noen Cheoc 840 Joshua Bone
189 Liquid Defense 500 Josh Lee
190 Blocko's Modern Life 750 Tyler Sontag
191 Leaving It All Behind 500 Tyler Sontag
random 8
192 Sequence 900 Andrew Menzies
193 Connected Component 200 Kacper Leszczyński
194 Give Up the Ghost 600 Tyler Sontag
195 Teleblast --- Joshua Bone
196 The Girl Who Was Left Behind 750 Jeffrey Bardon
197 Primed --- Zane Kuecks
198 Great Train Robbery --- Joshua Bone
199 Obfuscated and Interred 750 Joshua Bone
200 Swivel Castle --- Tyler Sontag

Voting

Voting was hosted on a private server owned by H2O, before it was moved to bitbusters.club, with voters logging in through David Stolp's site.

As with CCLP1 and CCLP4, the levels were randomly sorted in voting packs of 50 levels each; level designers were removed to prevent bias. C2G scripting was used to randomize the level order, so that no two voters would get the same level order. This new voting method was negatively received by several members of the community, so fixed-order packs were also made available.

Unlike CCLP1 and CCLP4 voting, for which packs were gradually released over time, for CC2LP1 all 28 voting packs were released at once. Each voter was first presented with a randomly-selected pack. In order to unlock another randomly-selected pack, they must vote on at least 90% of each pack already unlocked (45 levels per pack).

Voting packs

  • Aerosol
  • Bamboo
  • Bunny
  • Chronicle
  • Derby
  • Dominion
  • Ember
  • Flora
  • Genie
  • Harpsichord
  • Interstellar
  • Jazz
  • Knight
  • Lightning
  • Monsoon
  • Nitrogen
  • Ostrich
  • Pirate
  • Quarry
  • Roundabout
  • Symphony
  • Trench
  • Tumbling
  • Urchin
  • Vinyl
  • Winter
  • Yield
  • Zen

Staff

Tyler Sontag is the leader of the staff. The rest of the staff was announced on February 14, 2019.

Name
chipster1059
H2O
random 8
Ruben Spaans
The Architect

Zane Kuecks joined the staff on February 26, but was later removed due to lack of participation.

Timeline of events

Date Event
2018-10-01 Survey posted about possible details for a CC2 sequel set, including name, length, and level restrictions
2018-10-31 Level submissions opened
2019-02-05 Full rules for submissions posted
2019-02-14 Forum post announces the CC2LP1 staff, and a submissions deadline of May 31, 2019
2019-05-31 Level submissions closed. 1406 levels by 36 designers were submitted. Level fix period begins
2019-07-12 Level fix period finishes
2019-07-16 CC2LP1 Voting begins. All 28 voting packs released to the public with 50 levels per pack, making a total of 1400 levels
2020-01-02 End date for voting set to May 2, 2020
2020-04-07 End date extended by two weeks due to complications with the voting server
2020-05-04 End date reset to May 11, 2020 after further complications with the voting server
2020-05-13 Voting reopens as the voting server complications have been fixed. End date for voting set to June 7, 2020
2020-06-07 Voting ended at 08:00 UTC. 34 users voted casting 27057 votes in the process
2020-08-19 Staff confirms that all 200 levels for the pack have been selected
2020-09-03 Leaks and spoilers start getting released about the set
2020-09-25 CC2LP1 release date set to October 9th 2020
2020-09-27 Official CC2LP1 trailer video released to the public as the final leak
2020-10-09 CC2LP1 released

Trivia

  • CC2LP1 is the first level pack not to contain secret levels or a Cypher level, due to CC2 not supporting passwords. CC2 levels can have "secret exits" leading further in the set with advanced C2G scripting, but this avenue was not explored.

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