Microstupidity - Tile World

Tile World is a free version of Chip's Challenge developed by Brian Raiter. It is an open-source cross-platform program, and includes reimplementations of both the original Lynx version of the game and the Microsoft version. Unfortunately, it does not include the levels from the original game. However, it is possible to use it to play various fan-made levels, including community-developed level series such as CCLP2 and CCLP3 which aim to be similar in scope to the original levels. If you have the "chips.dat" file from the Microsoft version, you can use this to play the original Chip's Challenge levels in Tile World.

As of the time of writing, the latest version of Tile World is 1.3.0, released on 17 April 2006:

• Windows binary package
• Source code
• Official Tile World website (for more downloads and information)

The official Tile World distribution is mainly aimed at Linux and Windows users. However, Thomas Harte has created a Mac OS X package:

• Mac OS X 'Universal Binary' package
• Source code
• Thomas Harte's page (requires Javascript; Tile World is second on the page)

Madhav Shanbhag has produced a modified version of Tile World, mainly featuring modifications to the user interface. He presents this as simply being version 2 of the program, but I can find no evidence of any sort of endorsement from Brian Raiter, so I consider it more proper to view it as a fork of the project:

• Windows binary package
• Source code
• Madhav Shanbhag's page (for more downloads and information)

I have made a few patches for Tile World. These have to be applied to the source code, and thus require some technical/programming knowledge to use.

• Rule Switch - Allows selection of rule set from main menu: left arrow for MS, right arrow for Lynx.
  "-m" or "-l" respectively will be added to the solution file names - existing files should be manually renamed beforehand.
  Download for Tile World 1.3.0 | 1.2.1 | 1.1.3
• Translucent Tiles - Allows translucency in tile images and various image file formats, using SDL_image.
  Download for Tile World 1.3.0 | 1.2.1 | 1.1.3
• God Mode - Adds an option to display the whole map rather than just a 9x9 area.
  Note: This mode is useful when testing levels, and it is fun to see certain levels running in their entirety, but do not report scores with it turned on, as it makes the game easier in some cases and so is considered cheating!
  Download for Tile World 1.3.0 | 1.2.1
• Odd Fix - Fixes odd step mode controls for Microsoft mode.
  Note: Tile World 1.3.0 includes an equivalent fix already.
  Download for Tile World 1.2.1