For anyone who is on the CCLP4 staff

[jblewis]

I'd also love to see some Chuck's Challenge integration. Since it'll likely be 3 years or more before we see anything of a new official set, there would be plenty of time to convince Chuck to add the last few CC1 tiles to the game. Then the staff could take liberty to port the levels to the game, or outsource that job to the original level designers if they want to do so.

I like the idea of porting CC levels to Chuck's Challenge (which I'll refer to as CC3D), but there's one non-game logic issue I've had: aesthetics. The design of the game elements of CC3D is completely different and would make much of what worked for CC look really strange. Could you imagine playing a location-referencing level like "Launch" in CC3D since the gravel would be replaced by the light spongy material? Or all of the levels involving color-based aesthetics that made sense in CC but would be visually broken in CC3D? I think porting levels is great, but I don't think it's something that needs to feel obligatory - or something that should affect our judgment calls for future official sets.

I think that would inappropriately suggests people to play only official sets and would pretty much discard any possible view on custom sets, because hey, we got the official sets...

I agree, but don't forget that much of the audience for CCLPs consists of people outside the active vocal group in this community. There are plenty of people who still subscribe to the Yahoo! group who don't care at all to play the custom sets and just want to consume the cream of the crop. This is part of the reason I think late CCLP3-difficulty levels should be in their own set outside the CCLP continuity, targeted at a more specific audience.

Also, the motivation isn't that we don't want difficulty, we just don't want homogenous difficulty.

Yeah, that's more or less what I was trying to get at.