Level editor please!

[Gavross]

I am so excited that CC is coming to steam, chucks challenge renewed the fire, this is the original fire! But I really hope that they include a level editor for both games, who's with me?!

[StingCleavage]

your wish is true https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGreTKV_Jy0

[StingCleavage]

and workshop is meant to work

[random 8]

But will there be an editor for CC1?

[StingCleavage]

I do not think so.

[Gavross]

yayyyy ty sting

[mrrogers]

There is something to be said for clean simple 2d artwork of an older game like this.

[mjsommerville]

You don't really need a level editor for the first game, since the second one has all the same elements, and a whole lot more.

[kilicool64]

Originally posted by mjsommerville:

You don't really need a level editor for the first game, since the second one has all the same elements, and a whole lot more.

The second game adds the ability to drop power ups though, which could break a lot of levels not made with it in mind.

[Surreal Canine]

If you're looking for a CC1 editor there are a number of things already out. Chip's Controls, Chip's Workshop, ChipEdit, and CCEdit, just to name a few. Of course, they don't work with the c2m files used by CC2, only the .dat and .ccl files used by the Windows 3.1 port of CC1.

[Allack]

Chip's Challenge 2 does have an Editor, that includes a flag that lets you set the logic to CC1 or CC2 in the properties.

Also CC1, CC2 & CC2 Editor are available in a bundle for $4.99. As the games are not out yet it's hidden by Steam but it will be here hopefully:

http://store.steampowered.com/sub/64119/

[Surreal Canine]

Oh, neat. So that means we might just have people porting the CCLPs over to the official version of the game!
The only problem would be a few CCLP2 levels with wonky tile combinations that didn't work in Lynx. ^^;

[Pilosus]

Originally posted by Surreal Canine:

Oh, neat. So that means we might just have people porting the CCLPs over to the official version of the game!
The only problem would be a few CCLP2 levels with wonky tile combinations that didn't work in Lynx. ^^;

Yeah, CCLP2 was mainly made with the Microsoft port in mind, so I guess quite a few levels will be incompatible, or at least broken.

It will be interesting to see how CC2 compares to TileWorld with the Lynx ruleset in terms of bold-times.

[kilicool64]

Originally posted by Surreal Canine:

Oh, neat. So that means we might just have people porting the CCLPs over to the official version of the game!
The only problem would be a few CCLP2 levels with wonky tile combinations that didn't work in Lynx. ^^;

I just remembered that unlike Tile World (even in Lynx mode) and the Windows port of Chip's Challenge, the Lynx version of CC doesn't allow brown buttons and teleporters to be freely connected to traps and other teleporters respectively. Rather, it determines their connections through some complicated logic. I heard it's the same here as far as teleporters are concerned, so the same probably applies to the brown buttons as well. Such a major change to the game's logic will unfortunately break quite a few levels.

[Allack]

Originally posted by kilicool64:

Originally posted by Surreal Canine:

Oh, neat. So that means we might just have people porting the CCLPs over to the official version of the game!
The only problem would be a few CCLP2 levels with wonky tile combinations that didn't work in Lynx. ^^;

I just remembered that unlike Tile World (even in Lynx mode) and the Windows port of Chip's Challenge, the Lynx version of CC doesn't allow brown buttons and teleporters to be freely connected to traps and other teleporters respectively. Rather, it determines their connections through some complicated logic. I heard it's the same here as far as teleporters are concerned, so the same probably applies to the brown buttons as well. Such a major change to the game's logic will unfortunately break quite a few levels.

I suggest you look at the CC2 video carefully, as you'll see something that might help with that ;)

[kilicool64]

Originally posted by Allack:

Originally posted by kilicool64:

I just remembered that unlike Tile World (even in Lynx mode) and the Windows port of Chip's Challenge, the Lynx version of CC doesn't allow brown buttons and teleporters to be freely connected to traps and other teleporters respectively. Rather, it determines their connections through some complicated logic. I heard it's the same here as far as teleporters are concerned, so the same probably applies to the brown buttons as well. Such a major change to the game's logic will unfortunately break quite a few levels.

I suggest you look at the CC2 video carefully, as you'll see something that might help with that ;)

Are you talking about the wire element that was added in CC2? I suppose that could help if it can be used for brown buttons and for networks of more than just two teleporters. (I already heard you can connect two blue teleporters with wires to connect them.) It would openly expose the connections to the players though which could spoil the solutions to a few levels, though this shouldn't be a problem most of the time.