As we wait for a proper Time Trial, here's a more casual one.

http://cczone.invisionzone.com/index.php?/files/file/583-%7B?%7D/


Just solve the second level, Twice the Fun
, and post your scores below. We'll figure out the rest later, but I think this is a shorter competition that is open through Sunday.

Enjoy!

-Miika

I completed all 149 levels of CCLP1 in the MS ruleset.

Link: http://cczone.invisionzone.com/index.php?/files/file/584-cclp1-tws/

File category: TWS Files

I've completed all 149 levels of CCLP2 and the original CC1 game in the MS rule set.

Attached Files

  CHIPS.tws (Size: 55.62 KB / Downloads: 233)
  CCLP2.tws (Size: 57.79 KB / Downloads: 225)

So I don't have the original CC obviously since my computer is to modern. But I do have the CC1 and 2 from Steam. Are there downloads from it (aside from Mobis pack)? And also I heard something about CCP1, CCP2 and CCP3. Are these for the Steam edition? Where can I get them? They sound amazing!

Normally I'm not into getting this kind of help. As a kid I loved and beat CC1. But as an adult I have a brain injury and am not doing well with the levels. Especially in Mobis pack level 10. A guide would be great. Even if its just a hint guide. Thanks.

Over the years (I've been on CC Zone since 2012, and on the Yahoo group for considerably longer), I have downloaded (more like saved and archived) many CC resources available on the internet, and in the process collected a lot of tilesets as well. The problem is however, I didn't bother to remember where I got them from and changed the filenames too -- made a big mess of the whole thing. (In my defence, I was a kid.) I'd like to maintain this collection now. I put up the list at http://cczone.invisionzone.com/index.php?/blog/6/entry-98-cc-image-resources/

If anyone knows who the original creator of the files is/are, and where the files are available on the net (if they still are), do tell!

200.BMP - probably changed to digits.bmp

BACKGROUND.BMP

CHIPEND.BMP

INFOWND.BMP

OBJ32_1.BMP - Monochrome - probably changed to monochrome.bmp

OBJ32_4.BMP - Tileset - probably changed to tiles.bmp

OBJ32_4E.BMP - Alternate Tileset - probably changed to alternate.bmp

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filename, size

Normal file sizes in KB, as shown in Windows Explorer. File sizes inside .zip files in bytes, as shown in WinRAR.

== Atari Lynx ==

<ol style="list-style-type:decimal;">[*]atiles.bmp, 4429

[*]Readme.txt, 2

</ol>

== Blurry ==

<ol style="list-style-type:decimal;">[*]atiles.bmp, 625 (Not Lynx)

[*]background.bmp, 137

[*]chipend.bmp, 244

[*]digits.bmp, 29

[*]infownd.bmp, 136

[*]monochrome.bmp, 625

[*]tiles.bmp, 625

</ol>

== Boulder Dash ==

by BDS4

<ol style="list-style-type:decimal;">[*]Boulder_Dash-TW_Theme.zip
</ol>

• atiles-BD.bmp, tiles-BD.bmp
  
  
• rc - BD, rc - BD-gfx_only
  
  
• messages_BD.txt
  
  
• BD_{blub,collect,crack,crack2,earth,earth-old1,explode,explode2,magic,magic-old1,MSdie,pickup,rock,sewwp,tele,time,time2,win}.wav
  
  

• CCCheat.bmp, 68672
  

• atiles.bmp, 501886
  
  
• atiles2.bmp, 1971358
  
  
• readme.txt, 1932
  
  

• Alternate Tileset.bmp, 73742
  
  
• Color Tileset.bmp, 852024
  
  
• Info Window, 184856
  
  
• Monochrome Tileset.bmp, 214072
  
  
• Tiled Background.bmp, 182416
  
  
• Readme.txt, 1502
  
  

• readme.txt, 458
  
  
• tiles.bmp, 344118 (TWMS style, balls are coloured red instead of pink)
  
  
• CHIPS.DAT, 108569 (uh oh)
  
  

• Red Color Tileset.bmp, 67354
  
  
• Red Digits.bmp, 6742
  
  
• Red Info Window.bmp, 5808
  
  
• Red Tile Background.bmp, 139606
  
  

• BACKGROUND.bmp, 22542
  
  
• CHIPEND.bmp, 41998
  
  
• INFOWND.bmp, 48142
  
  
• OBJ32_4.bmp, 341518
  
  

• Bug.bmp, 214070 (Bug instead of Teeth)
  
  
• Color Tileset.bmp, 69584
  
  

• atiles32.bmp, 2252514
  
  
• atiles48.bmp, 5037602
  
  
• stiles32.bmp, 344118
  
  
• stiles48.bmp, 774198
  
  

• atiles.bmp, 4534366
  

Hey remember that post? That was a few months ago. So what happened?

Well...since I posted that, the only levels I played were in C1059-CC2, with the exception of that collab level I did with Josh, and maybe a few others. Either way, I did not play any other custom sets, nor any CCLP4 voting packs. And unfortunately, it feels good.

CC is a good game, there's a reason why it's still popular over 25 years after it was first released. But honestly, now that I stopped playing, I can't say I miss it. I think that my life has actually been improving since then. Not playing CC anymore gives me more time to focus on things that I find more important.

So essentially, I'm leaving CCZone. This time it's for real. It was good while it lasted, but now it's over. I released an update to C1059-CC2 yesterday; I reached my 149-level goal, nearly all levels have replays, and they shouldn't contain any major busts. If I ever update it again, it will take a while.

Also, some of you may have noticed how I uploaded a bunch of videos on Youtube on Christmas Eve. These videos were filmed a while ago, I just didn't upload them. Now that everything I filmed has been uploaded, I won't be uploading anything else for a while. If anyone wants to continue my LPs where I left off, feel free to do so.

TCCLPRejects

A podcast of J.B. Lewis, Jeffrey Bardon, and myself talking about 10 levels we really want to see in CCLP4 has been released! It can be listened/watched here:




Video is just over 2 hours long! We hope you enjoy!

Level 91

"Pipe Maze"

The atmosphere and name of this level is meant to evoke an underground pipe maze from the Super Mario Bros. series, and I'm quite pleased with how it turns out. There are a few places where you have to push a block and not follow it, but I always allow the player to look ahead and see that. The hint is meant to remind you that there's a water tile at the end of the slide leading out of the southmost section; I probably could have worded it better.

I didn't notice until much later that you can't actually see the water at (10, 9) before you step into that slide, but I'm sure 99% of players pushed the block ahead anyway. At least if I had to accidentally leave an unforeseeable deathtrap in a level, I put it right near the beginning!

Level 92

"Square Dancing"

(CCLP1 Level 18!)


I was getting close to the end of the set. I needed another level. I didn't have many blob levels. And so I constructed this level in approximately 2 minutes. At least for a blob level, it's not really stressful or frustrating, so I think it's fine for CCLP1. I wouldn't be surprised if this level had the shortest design time out of all CCLP1 levels.

The name is a reference to Blobdance from CC1.

Level 93

"Progress Ball"

The name is a pun on "progress bar", which I later found out was also a custom level title. As this is a late level in the set, it includes a bit more trickiness than usual, such as the fact that you have to enter the glider/fireball room through a recessed wall the first time and through the force floors the second time, as well as the fact that stepping on the button at (30, 26) will get you stuck unless the ball is in the proper position. Of course, these details are probably still pretty easy to figure out for experienced players. Another one I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out, and though it might've had a chance at CCLP1.

You can pretty easily run through the big line of tanks in the southwest without using the blocks to block any of them off. Didn't feel like changing it since it's not really an important part of the level.

I added the force floor at (19, 1) in an update. My reasoning for that was that if someone had astronomically unlucky timing, they could step on the (30, 26) toggle button while the ball was on the (18, 1) toggle wall and get it stuck on the left of that wall. But oh wait, if that wall's closed, then the ones next to the button are open, so no cook. Silly unnecessary fix (just realized that now)

Level 94

"Bridges for Bugs"

You know what the set really lacked, I thought? A long block-pushing level. Why did I think that? No idea, especially when Level 86 is already kind of the same thing. But as far as block-pushing levels go, at least this one is somewhat interesting since you're building paths for a bug and not just for Chip. It could also have been a lot worse; note that I limited it to about 1/3 of the map.

This level introduces reuses (from Level 30) a mechanism I call "double cloning". Note that the clone button doesn't directly clone a bug; instead, it clones a ball which clones a bug and promptly dies. This way, the ball acts as the bug's controller boss and forces it to exit the clone machine to the north in MS, no matter what any previously cloned bug might be doing.

Level 95

"Chomping Swarm"

Remember Jumping Swarm and Slimy Swarm? This is like those, but with Teeth. I made a version of this in Levelset 1 that didn't quite work because if Chip was too far left, the Teeth wouldn't enter the force slide. I fixed that issue by designing it so that the entire playing field is several spaces right of the cloner, except for the path from the socket to the exit since the Teeth cloner is moot at that point. Also, the use of traps instead of walls to help keep back the swarm is kind of neat, I suppose. Using traps this way is a coincidentally similar concept to "The Grass is Greener on the Other Side", a Josh Lee level in CCLP1.

Level 96

"Chip Away"

The title is a pun I was surprised never got into an official set. The concept is based on the part of "Oh-Ho!" from CCLP3 where you have to clear some dirt and make a ball's bounce cycle longer, letting you sneak in behind it. In this case, you have to "chip away" at the dirt, locked doors, or chips to increase the bounce cycles and get the rewards at the ends. I think the level had some neat ideas, such as the multiple uses for the ball at (1, 22), but the core concept dragged at times. The chip line right before the chip socket didn't need to be that long.

The hint is meant to get you past a couple of tricky decisions with your keys. You have to unlock the blue door at (3, 17) before the one at (13, 13), and at the end of the level, you have to unlock the yellow door at (17, 2) (which you can reach earlier, though it's farther from the yellow key) before the one at (6, 2), though in that case you can clearly see which choice is correct. I'm not sure the hint wording is quite as clear as it could have been.

This level saw a couple of updates. First, I added force floors between the toggle walls in the bug line because I was having trouble with the bugs getting turned around in Lynx. Second, I changed the ball at (14, 18) into a fireball and added a water tile at (7, 17) so you could drown it and not get surprised by it when you're coming back through the (20, 17) force floor.

Level 97

"Guardians"

In Levelset 1, I made an extremely generic dodging level called "Guardians" that just consisted of concentric squares of monster paths, separated by full-tile walls, with chips in between the paths. Something like this:



Well, I wanted to make it more interesting this time, so I compressed the old "Guardians", so there was no longer safe space between the paths, and put it in the middle, with four unique dodging challenges around the outside. I decided to have the monsters in those four areas be released when you grab the keys because that reminded me of the trope in various other video games or movies where a character grabs treasure in an ancient temple or something, and some monsters/spirits/golems come to life and start chasing him or her....

The first three dodging rooms look trickier than they are; in each of them, there's a spot in the middle where you can stand and the monsters won't get to you before you have a clear path to the exit (in the walkers' case, this is usually true). The Teeth room surprised me by being harder than I expected, but it's still doable.

Depending on how you unlock the locks in the middle, you can make a swastika, but if you do that, you have no one to blame but yourself!

Level 98

"Rube Goldberg"

Whoo, boy. This is one of the hardest--if not the hardest--levels in the set. Tricky because you need to think ahead and keep track of what parity toggle walls and tanks will be in as things happen....

It includes a couple of concepts inspired by CCLP3. First of all, the level idea as a whole, where you need to set up an elaborate path for a monster to go through while Chip is stuck in a trap, is totally inspired by You Can't Teach an Old Frog New Tricks. Also, the key section in the west was inspired by Vulcan. Of course, a massive difference between this level and Old Frog is that in Old Frog, you have to make a lot of decisions that could cook the level before you can see the whole thing. In this level, I let the player see nearly all of it, enough that they can make the correct decisions without guesswork. For example, I even let you walk through the fireball/trap mechanism in the east yourself so you can see what will happen to the glider there. In an update, I added chips and chip sockets to the level, forcing you to explore the northeast before you start unlocking doors in the west. This way, you can see what positions the toggle walls and tanks are in, and therefore know how many times to hit each button. As a bit of trickiness, the only solution for the key section (as far as I know) involves making the glider pass over 1 green button...and 3 blue buttons.

One annoying thing about the level is that once you clone a glider and hop into the trap, you have to wait quite a while to see if it releases you or not. To alleviate this, I tried to add some sound cues to the level that would play as the glider went through. The string of balls exploding bombs in the northwest is unmistakable to the ear when it happens. Also, in the same update where I added the chips, I added a toggle wall in front of the fireball cloner so it would shut off (and shut up) a short while after it had done its thing.

Level 99

"I Wanna Be the Bit Buster"

This level takes everything the set is about--friendly, intuitive, fair design--and throws it all out the window for one level of sheer evil fun on the part of the designer. It's only fitting for a level named after I Wanna Be the Guy, a game infamous for its extreme difficulty and traps that are unfair, creative, and made to do the opposite of everything the player expects. This was incredibly amusing to design, and apparently some players thought the traps were amusing to fall for, too, since a few people gave the level positive reviews. (And some gave it negative reviews, as I expected.) Just how many traps are there in this level? I'll count them below. Please don't look in there until you've tried the level for yourself!

[Click to Show Content]

The ones marked with "Foreseeable" can be checked for if you're really careful.

<ol style="list-style-type:decimal;">[*]Sliding any direction but up at the start leads to a watery grave.

[*]Sliding up immediately as the level starts will kill you. You need to wait for the ball to get out of the way.

[*](Foreseeable) Trying to get a chip behind the recessed walls on either side of the suction boots will get you stuck due to a hidden wall. You can check for this by stepping on the recessed wall that's not below the chip and trying to step up.

[*]Out of the 5 blocks in the X, the 4 on the edges have fire. This is the same pattern of fire as in Leave No Stone Unturned. (Remember that level?) Also, the reason for the walls, and the solid blue wall under the center block, is to prevent block slapping in Lynx.

[*]You can only fill in one water space here. If you don't pick the one with the thief, you'll get stuck with the suction boots on a force slide later on and won't be able to outrun cloned balls.

[*]Once you pass through the recessed wall, if you make a right, you'll run into a hidden wall and then get flattened by a long line of pink balls.

[*]Similarly, going for either red key will get you flattened by that same line of pink balls. There aren't even any red doors in the level

[*](Foreseeable) You can enter the teleport by going left, or up. Go left, and you teleport into a bomb. This can be seen in advance from (19, 30).

[*](Anti-foreseeable) After escaping the stream of cloned balls, you can choose to go onto a force floor slide above you or to your right. You can see that the one to your right leads to water; however, that's a trick. Taking the up slide results in drowning; taking the right slide is safe as a Teeth will clone a block to fill the water in before you reach it.

[*]After hitting the blue button and heading into the blue wall section, failing to clear out the blue walls and extricate the cloned block in time will leave you stuck when the next block clones.

[*](Foreseeable) The balls guarding the chip to the right of the blue wall section are bouncing off hidden walls, so they may rebound onto you unexpectedly if you're not careful. You can observe their bouncing from the blue wall section, though.

[*]In the line of block cloners creating blocks on the ice, the second-to-last button is connected to the cloner one row down instead of the cloner on the same row. If you're running full speed and don't stop, the cloned block will hit you.

[*](Foreseeable) After you get the ice skates and come through the thief, there are 3 blocks in a row and an X of ice spaces above them. If you push the left or center block up, it will rebound off an invisible wall and kill you. Can be checked for by trying to step onto those spaces yourself.

[*]If you run towards the exit and don't stop after hitting the toggle button, then the toggle door next to the exit will close, trapping you as a glider swoops in to end you. You instead have to stay behind on the toggle button or the recessed wall until the glider goes back up, at which point the exit opens for real. This final trap (killing the player just before--or in some cases, just after--the level goal) is called a "Kaizo Trap" after the stage "Special Stage 2" from Kaizo Mario World. Look up ProtonJon's Let's Play of that level for more details, but be warned that the language is very family unfriendly.

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