Hi, I guess I'm momentarily back. Recently I was hungry for a new puzzle game and decided to play through CCLP1. I was heavily active in the months before CCLP1, but burnt out too early to really play through it. I beat about 25 levels when the set was released, but quickly lost motivation and quit CC. So this was, for the most part, blind. I played the game on tile world lynx (as opposed to the awful, buggy and somehow popular 5fps port) and beat all but one level in 4 days. This isn't my return to the community, I simply felt like playing CC recently. I feel like I have somewhat of an outsiders perspective and haven't really been influenced by the hype.

The set starts of exactly as you'd expect. However, after the well-picked lesson levels, CCLP1 presents a medley of about 80 levels which were all designed for the level 15 slot. No individual level was actually bad, however by level 100 I noticed that the set I was playing through hadn't reached Tossed Salad difficulty yet. Am I really not trusted to figure out how to dodge the enemies 2 seconds into Starry Night, or experiment on puzzles? I remembered back to the strategic dodging on Digger and Blobdance; the creative puzzles Four Square and Catacombs; and Blobdance and On The Rocks, which dared to be difficult. Due to an excessive focus on beginner-friendliness and "fair" design (can it be beaten it in 1 try), CCLP1 is simply boring. This is not a replacement for CC1.

I understand that this game was targeted at beginners, not me, so please don't get too offended by anything I say. I know I'm being harsh. But this is just how I personally felt about the set.

After the early-game snoozefest, however, the set becomes a lot better, and I enjoyed most of the triple digit levels. If only the set had reached this point sooner, and I see no reason why it didn't, I would've really like it overall. Thief, You've Taken All That Was Me was hands down my favourite level in the set. I guess that shows what kind of a game I was hoping for.

Will I come back for CCLP4? Perhaps. Right now I'm even entertaining the idea of LPing it, but who knows how many times I'll change my mind in the decade before it gets released. One thing's for sure: if I ever play that Chips Challenge set, it's because I want a challenge. Something with a difficulty peak that puts CCLP3 to shame. But that seems unlikely, since certain members of the community will denounce anything that takes them more than one attempt to beat. At the very least, I want that feeling of being stumped by a puzzle. And that feeling of solving it after so much time and thought. I only weakly felt that twice in the four days it took me to finish this set.

There is a new version of my Java Chip's Challenge 2 level set maker. Tons of new easy to use features. Check it out. Read the help file first. In order for it to work the directory you set for levels must be the same as where you are selecting the levels from.Music must be in cc2 music folder. Program is located in the dist folder.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/9mh71zz6ryjp4y...r.zip?dl=0

File category: CC1 Levelsets

Grandiosely envisioned and hastily constructed by the CCLP4 staff as our April Fools 2016 joke. This set is intended to be awfully bad. Likewise this is not CCLP4 and definitely will not be like the real thing. First, last, and only version released April 1, 2016.

Attached Files

  Not_CCLP4.dat (Size: 105.38 KB / Downloads: 460)

How do i create a LP (Level Pack) for the game?

Tile World is open-source program, making it possible for third-party developers to make modifications to it. An older version (1.0) was ported to BeOS in 2002 and can be downloaded here:

http://pulkomandy.tk/~beosarchive/index....d-BeOS.zip

I decided to try it out to see if there was any hope of porting a more recent version to BeOS' successor Haiku, so I installed this version in a virtual machine, and found that it suffers from several bugs. One of them is especially weird.

the end of all time, by David Stolp, should take 3.14*(10^20) years to solve. However, for some reason, in this BeOS version of Tile World, the bomb blows up after only a few minutes. This does not occur in any Windows or Linux versions of Tile World, I tested it.

I have tried to investigate the reason why this happens, but unfortunately the source code for the BeOS version is not available since BeBits went down last year.

The only browser included with BeOS is called NetPositive, and its last version was released in 2001, so I can't access CCZone to upload my TWS file. I managed, however, to film this AVI from the host operating system, and here it is.




Does anyone have any idea why this happens? And do I qualify for the Armageddon award?

Greetings Chipsters,

The CCLP4 staff is pleased to announce that CCLP4™ is COMPLETED and available for download right here:
http://cczone.invisionzone.com/index.php?/files/file/560-not-cclp4/

You may be thinking to yourself, "Hey, I don't remember getting to vote...". That would be correct! We in the CCLP4 staff have developed a completely new system of community pack development which streamlines the voting process. With this new system, we believe that we will be able to pump out a community level pack every year! Our system involves our dedicated staff members delicately hand-choosing levels of which they are personal fans. For this particular set, we aimed to create a set that would provoke a grand sense of nostalgia amongst its players, taking them back to the time when invisible wall mazes and dodging blobs were all the rage. We even considered levels from classic level packs that were not submitted for CCLP4™, like TCCLP.dat, JoshL.dat, and Ultimate Chip.dat; and to ensure the highest quality, we chose a diverse range of levels designed by our very own staff members. We are very proud of what we have created and hope to work with the community again soon!

-- The CCLP4 Staff

File category: TWS Files

This is a TWS solution file for CCLP3 in Lynx. All levels have been solved, but there are no bolds.

• 1.0: Original upload on 26 March 2016.

Attached Files

  CCLP3-Lynx.dac.tws (Size: 98.56 KB / Downloads: 194)

File category: TWS Files

This is a TS0 TWS solution, but the only level solved is Lounge Act.

• 1.0: Original upload on 26 March 2016.

Attached Files

  TS0.dac.tws (Size: 1.78 KB / Downloads: 205)

http://chips.kaseorg.com/newsgroup/artic...e.announce

Quote:<pre>This is to serve as notice that, due to a need to cut costs, we will be decommissioning the server that runs Annexcafe on April 15, 2016.</pre>

So here's a thing I've been working on lately.

EDIT: new video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzUHMf7wNeM

old video: