Ok, by now everybody knows about the CCLP1 staff's April Fools joke. I've uploaded the set as Not_CCLP1.dat both here and at the Yahoo! group.

All of the levels were taken strictly from sets submitted for CCLP1 consideration by the staff. A breakdown:

J.B. ~55

Tyler ~30

Rock ~20

Ben ~15

Dave ~15

Architect - 15

James - 1 (+ a collab)

Paul - 0 (he was with us in spirit, though)

Those last three numbers are exact, but the first few aren't. If the rest of the staff could quickly tally their totals and post them here, that would be great (I would do it but I'm not sure about the authorship of some of the levels and it would take considerably longer)

How it was made: Tyler assembled various levels from staff sets, Rock and I narrowed the number down to 149 and created the difficulty curve. The whole process I would estimate took around 5 hours, and it was all done on March 31.

In any case, I think the set is pretty decent as a whole. It has a decent difficulty curve, good level selection, and some appropriate level placements. Its main flaws are that the Cypher passwords are all invalid, that there a few bizarre level placements, and that its last level is too awesome to be put into words.

If anybody has any thoughts or questions on the set, this is the place

I was pretty into this back in 2008:

http://www.nationstates.net/

I eventually figured out that it was a waste of my time, but it still took me a few days to finally give it up. There's really not much to it, but it proved strangely addicting.



Right now, I'm thinking I might have to delete my account at Chesstempo. I've spent the better part of the past week working my way up to a 1514 rating, and it's not very beneficial to my productivity.

In this offbeat level set inspired by the game Karoshi by Jesse Venbrux, the challenge isn't figuring out how to get Chip to the exit. . . but figuring out how to get a death message. I decided that it was too offbeat to upload to the Yahoo group, where I'm trying to keep my CCLP1 candidates all neat and tidy, but you guys can download it (theoretically) here. The 19 levels are (unless I've made a terrible mistake) MS- and Lynx-compatible. [Edit: Oh, they should also be Pedantic-compatible, too. At the very least, the red and brown buttons are mapped pedantically; if I'm missing something else, yell at me!]

Have fun!

File category: CC1 Levelsets

Inspired by the game Karoshi by Jesse Venbrux, this novel Chip's Challenge level set contains 19 levels, plus one dummy level which is impossible to win (er, lose?). None of the main levels are timed, so this level set is decided not for bold seekers! Then again, it's hardly for exit seekers, either. . .

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Mine is Toothless from How To Train Your Dragon. In fact, I think all of my avatars have been dragons so far.

All Chipsters. Please read the following below.

After that disgusting post by former staff member Andrew R, Chip's Portal Staff has decided to reintroduce CC Zone: The Next Level, commencing April 2nd 2012 12:00am GMT.

The posts will be placed in a special forum for less confusing access. For all you members who survived Chip's Portal's Banhammer, congratulations!

Chip's Portal only lasted 1 day, but don't fear. We are changing things back to what they were last March, when things felt... less abnormal.

Thanks for your time.

I am leaving the Chip's Challenge community effective immediately. This also means that I am retracting AndrewR1 from CCLP1 consideration effective immediately;
to this end, I have removed it from the Yahoo! group. Also, the Chip's Portal competition levelsets will not be released, so you don't need to worry about removing references to Chip's Portal.

Before I leave, however, I would like to clarify a few points:

I am leaving because everything I say to the Chip's Portal Staff seems to get ignored by me. They treat me like a hypocritical scumbag and I don't know why. I thought we all got over this, but they seem to be banning people for no reason. I tried to PM Tom about the reasoning for my original ban and posted some ways to improve this site and he didn't respond, and I'm sure it was on purpose.

Also, the rest of the community just doesn't seem to care that he is making these mistakes. I work full time as a web administrator and I know how to manage a website and keep people working professionally. Perhaps I was a little too harsh on the community last month, but after some anger management classes I've managed to improve myself. I spent hundreds of dollars on Chip's Portal and I'm annoyed to see Tom paying much less to keep this site running. It's frustrating his site already has over 8,000 posts in just over 3 months!

It also bugs me to see people like Tyler hacking into my account and nobody giving two chips about anything. Sure, my password was pretty easy, but I didn't expect anyone to get it. Also, just giving me awards for no reason seems like sloppy management if you ask me, and where's Craig Vilbig? Why hasn't he done the skinning to this site yet? That is bad management.

And finally, what about the CCLP3 pages? It's been like 2 flipper years for button's sake! It's bad enough Tom stole my website and actually used the name. What happened to CC Zone? And geodude accused me of being a ghost. What is wrong with everyone?

Anyway, I'm fed up with all of this, so I'm leaving. Goodbye.

PS - Did you know he only edits my posts and changes his statements to make me look weak? This is Hitler-like behaviour, and nobody seems to care. Hypocrasy/Double Standards.

So, be honest guys. What did you think of my levelset?

By the way, I've lost the file on my computer. Anyone else got a link to it? I'd love to upload it on here.

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