Chip's Challenge Level Pack 1

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Chip's Challenge Level Pack 1 (CCLP1) refers to the official level pack that new players of Chip's Challenge are expected to play first. 

Ideally, this would have been the levelset of the original Chip's Challenge 1 game. However, that levelset cannot be freely distributed outside of the game, and the game itself can no longer be legally obtained. CCLP1 is a free community-created levelpack that new players will be able to use along with Tile World to learn and experience the basics of the game, before moving on to the more difficult CCLP2 and CCLP3.

CCLP1 was released on March 28, 2014, a week up from the original release date, after members of the community solved five puzzles related to CCLP1 over at CC ZoneA trailer was released on March 23, 2014 showcasing some of the levels in CCLP1 as a reward for solving these puzzles.

List of designers

Name Number of Levels
Jonathan Birchall 2
Daniel Bouwmeester 6
Gavin Duncan 1
Grant Fikes 1
Rock Généreux 6
Trevor Hedges 4
Ben Hornlitz 2
Zane Kuecks 1
Mike Lask 1
Josh Lee 12
John Lewis 13
Andrew Menzies 31
Michael Moorman 2
Ashley Newcomer 2
Markus O. 5
Tom Patten 12
Henry Potts 14
Wes Powers 1
Archie Pusaka 10
Ida Roberthson 3
"Rosabellis" 4
Eric Schmidt 1
Jacques Smith 1
Tyler Sontag 9
Miika Toukola 3
Dave Varberg 2

List of CCLP1 levels, in chronological order

  1. Key Pyramid
  2. Slip and Slide
  3. Present Company
  4. Block Party
  5. Facades
  6. When Insects Attack
  7. Under Pressure
  8. Switcheroo
  9. Swept Away
  10. Graduation
  11. Basketball
  12. Leave No Stone Unturned
  13. The Monster Cages
  14. Wedges
  15. Twister
  16. Tetragons
  17. Tiny
  18. Square Dancing
  19. Feel the Static
  20. Chip Suey
  21. Generic Ice Level
  22. Repair the Maze
  23. Circles
  24. Chip's Checkers
  25. Mind Lock
  26. Trafalgar Square
  27. Teleport Depot
  28. The Last Starfighter
  29. Sky High or Deep Down
  30. Button Brigade
  31. Quincunx
  32. Nitroglycerin
  33. Spitting Image
  34. Just a Bunch of Letters
  35. Mystery Wall
  36. Rhombus
  37. Habitat
  38. Heat Conductor
  39. Dig and Dig
  40. Sea Side
  41. Descending Ceiling
  42. Mughfe
  43. Gears
  44. Frozen Labyrinth
  45. Who's the Boss?
  46. Sapphire Cavern
  47. Bombs Away
  48. Sundance
  49. 49 Cell
  50. The Grass Is Greener on the Other Side
  51. H2O Below 273 K
  52. The Bone
  53. Start at the End
  54. Mini Pyramid
  55. The Chambers
  56. Connect the Chips
  57. Key Farming
  58. Corral
  59. Asterisk
  60. Guard
  61. Highways
  62. Design Swap
  63. New Block in Town
  64. Chip Kart 64
  65. Squared in a Circle
  66. Klausswergner
  67. Booster Shots
  68. Flames and Ashes
  69. Double Diversion
  70. Juxtaposition
  71. Tree
  72. Breathing Room
  73. Occupied
  74. Traveler
  75. ToggleTank
  76. Funfair
  77. Shuttle Run
  78. Secret Passages
  79. Elevators
  80. Flipside
  81. Colors for Extreme
  82. Launch
  83. Ruined World
  84. Mining for Gold Keys
  85. Black Hole
  86. Starry Night
  87. Pluto
  88. Chip Block Galaxy
  89. Chip Grove City
  90. Bowling Alleys
  91. Roundabout
  92. The Shifting Maze
  93. Flame War
  94. Slime Forest
  95. Courtyard
  96. Going Underground
  97. Gate Keeper
  98. Rat Race
  99. Deserted Battlefield
  100. Loose Pocket
  101. Time Suspension
  102. Frozen in Time
  103. Portcullis
  104. Hotel Chip
  105. Tunnel Clearance
  106. Jailbird
  107. Paramecium Palace
  108. Exhibit Hall
  109. Green Clear
  110. Badlands
  111. Alternate Universe
  112. Carousel
  113. Teleport Trouble
  114. Comfort Zone
  115. California
  116. Communism
  117. Blobs on a Plane
  118. Runaway Train
  119. The Sewers
  120. Metal Harbor
  121. Chip Plank Galleon
  122. Jeepers Creepers
  123. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
  124. Utter Clutter
  125. Blockade
  126. Peek-a-Boo
  127. In the Pink
  128. Elemental Park
  129. Frogger
  130. Dynamite
  131. Easier Than It Looks
  132. Spumoni
  133. Steam Cleaner Simulator
  134. (Ir)reversible
  135. Culprit
  136. Whirlpool
  137. Thief Street
  138. Chip Alone
  139. Assassin
  140. Automatic (Caution) Doors
  141. Flush
  142. Bummbua Banubauabgv
  143. Amphibia
  144. The Ancient Temple
  145. Chance Time!
  146. Cineworld
  147. Thief, You've Taken All That Was Me
  148. The Snipers
  149. Clubhouse

Title

There has been some debate as to whether this level pack should actually be titled "CCLP1" or something else, mainly to avoid confusion with CC1 - the original game and levelset. Alternative names such as "CCLP0" and "TWLP1" have been suggested. However, the majority of the community is currently in favor of retaining CCLP1 as the title.

Levels

As with all community-created official level-packs, the plan was for Chipsters to vote on levels from custom level sets and select the best 149. The special introductory nature of this set demands levels that are similar in design to those from CC1, i.e. levels with aesthetically pleasing and consistent design, and levels without difficult puzzles. The first few levels are "lesson" levels that teach new players what each tile does.

Like CC1, the level set is compatible with both the Lynx and MS rulesets. Suggestions that levels also conform to some or all "pedantic" Lynx rules were considered, but voted against, as it was felt that this would be unnecessarily restrictive.[1]

The following levels were confirmed to be in the set, revealed by the CCLP1 Leaks.

Other levels confirmed in the official CCLP1 trailer.

Staff

John Lewis has been appointed CCLP1 staff coordinator - as per the results of a community vote at the end of August 2011. The community was also in favor of the rest of the staff being appointed by the coordinator. Accordingly, the staff list was announced a couple of weeks later. The list of current staff members can be found on the CCLP1 website.

Voting

To narrow down the levels that appear on the ballot, the staff performed a pre-voting elimination. The "whitelist" was then finalized with inputs from the community: "limbo" levels that were fixed by their designers, and "blacklisted" levels that were nominated by at least 2 people (other than the designer), were re-considered for the whitelist.

CCLP1 voting is being conducted at CC Zone. Tom Patten has been appointed Voting Coordinator.

There are a couple of key changes in the voting mechanism (as compared to that used for CCLP2 and CCLP3), namely:

  1. Voters need to provide only a single rating ranking each level; there is no separate "difficulty" rating.
  2. The submitted levels have been grouped randomly into different level packs for voters to play and vote on.

The level packs are available at CC Zone as well as the Yahoo group.

Voting Packs

Pack Release Date Number of Levels
Cardboard 31st May 2013 50
Flouncy 31st May 2013 50
Giraffe 31st May 2013 50
Shampoo 31st May 2013 50
Lipstick 3rd June 2013 50
Tungsten 6th June 2013 50
Eggplant 7th June 2013 50
Vermillion 9th June 2013 50
Popcorn 15th June 2013 50
Dragon 16th June 2013 50
Zephyr 21st June 2013 50
Helmet 24th June 2013 50
Baguette 28th June 2013 50
Roadcone 29th June 2013 50
Magma 29th June 2013 50
Omicron 4th July 2013 50
Asteroid 12th July 2013 50
Kimono 15th July 2013 50
Igloo 16th July 2013 50
Quartz 17th July 2013 50
Umbrella 17th July 2013 50
Yoga 29th July 2013 50
Necktie 30th July 2013 50
Wrench 2nd August 2013 50
Jacuzzi 4th August 2013 50
Xylem 11th August 2013 50
Generic 12th August 2013 50
Bookshelf 13th August 2013 50
Parrot 13th August 2013 50
Violin 17th August 2013 50
Mushroom 28th August 2013 50
Shoehorn 28th August 2013 50
Entertainment 28th August 2013 47
Total: 1,647

Timeline of Events

Date Event
2011-04-22 CCLP1 - "an official freely available levelset with 149 easy Lynx-compatible levels - for those new to the game" - proposed in a post at the newsgroup.
2011-08-10 Announcement at the Yahoo! group calling for staff nominations and level submissions.
2011-09-01 Staff coordinator elected.
2011-09-14 Staff list announced.
2011-10-13 Level submissions opened.
2011-10-30 CCLP1 site launched.
2012-02-07 Submission deadline set to March 31, 2012.
2012-03-01 Submission deadline extended to June 30, 2012.
2012-06-30 Level submissions closed.
2013-03-19 Voting administrator(s) and site chosen.
2013-04-26 Initial voting lists published.
2013-06-01 CCLP1 voting began on CC Zone; first set of voting packs released.
2013-08-28 All 33 voting packs released.
2013-09-30 End date for voting set to December 31, 2013.
2014-01-01 Voting ended at 00:00 GMT.
2014-02-11 CCLP1 release date set to 4th April 2014.
2014-03-19 All CCLP1 "Within" puzzles solved. As a reward, CCLP1's release date was pushed forward to 28th March 2014.
2014-03-23 Official CCLP1 trailer video released to the public as the final leak.
2014-03-28 CCLP1 released.

Top 10 CCLP1 players

MS

  • Melinda score - 6,005,820
  1. John Lewis - 6,005,820
  2. James Anderson - 6,005,390
  3. Miika Toukola - 6,003,760
  4. Tyler Sontag - 6,000,430
  5. Tom Rowe - 5,994,160
  6. Reynaldi Judianto - 5,993,830
  7. Ben Hornlitz - 5,991,800
  8. Jonathan Birchall - 5,987,460
  9. Jeffrey Bardon - 5,984,970
  10. Steven Jones - 5,981,900

Lynx

  • Melinda score - 6,000,130
  1. John Lewis - 6,000,100
  2. Eddy Limb - 5,998,420
  3. Miika Toukola - 5,996,400
  4. Jeffrey Bardon - 5,985,820
  5. Steven Jones - 5,972,510
  6. Tyler Sontag - 5,967,810
  7. "random 8" - 5,960,230
  8. Ruben Spaans - 5,943,270
  9. Finn Jepsen - 5,940,400
  10. Dave Varberg - 5,912,950

External Links

References

See also

  1. Chip's Challenge 1
  2. Chip's Challenge Level Pack 2
  3. Chip's Challenge Level Pack 3