Don't waste your time with this, it's unsolvable. Not only because it's not logical and WAY too much going on simultaneously, there was one bug that prevented us from finishing (toy chest in Red could not be opened). 2 hours down the drain, thanks for nothing!

Man that was hard but enjoyable! I also couldn't find the last 3 digit code, had to find it in the comments. There was no mirror to shine the light on either. Great map though!

how is the 3 digit code solved at the end of red. This is bugging me. I Solved everything but this.

had the same problem with box in red 7. we guessed the code should be above the window, but the wooden tiles were empty and we solved everything... also too much going on, but the first one was great and we really enjoyed it :)

As found by Guffen123 the code is 313

Exactly same issue than the comment below
Very frustrating

So we solved every puzzle except the box lock in Red 7. The one that supposedly the code for is in Blue 4. But I don't see any code in Blue 4. But your guide just says it should be in there and also doesn't even say what the code is.

This map is so stupid, too many things going on and its honestly just a guess for life, partner and i couldnt be bothered finishing it because it bored us and we were over it tbh.

Despite all the bugs and items disappearing, I enjoyed the first map. This, however, is a piece of sh*t.

Room is alright, though some of the puzzles need adjusting The puzzle with the poker chips needs to have at least one more row filled out for it to be a pattern that is recognizable and or a hint put in the other room to help solve it. Same with the plants beneath chest a hint needs to be added to one side of the room.

You can't establish a pattern from two data points. Trying to extrapolate from two data points is impossible. It is a guess. If you want us to notice patterns you need AT LEAST 3. I did not finish this room because it was too frustrating, not because it is too hard but because it is honestly just not done good enough.

Definitely a big challenge, but it was hard to distinguish important interactables from junk and some really important objects were difficult to spot. The poker puzzle was near impossible to figure out without the guide. Glad that this map is challenging, but improvements to object clarity and hint direction would make it less torturous.

When is part 3 coming? :)

This would be a good escape room if the patterns were established better. A lot of the puzzles are running on an assumption that we will know to finish a "pattern" when said pattern only has one example. Dominoes, color blocks, etc.

Whats the Blue 1 color puzzle combination (the color mixing puzzle? Cannot figure it out, please help

The plant shelf puzzle is poorly designed imo. Unless we missed a hint, there's nothing to point that we should interact with those plants in the first place

How do you solve the letter blocks?

this map is garbage, super buggy chess pieces fell through the floor. absolutely random puzzles with no real solution without using guide. 2 hours of my life wasted for a broken map.

awesome map, we could not figure out the position of the chess board / statue placement. used the guide to open the exit doors to get around it, would be cool to have that one shown what it was

This one was definitely harder than the first part, which is not a bad thing, but there is a lot of confusion regarding directions to take and link between puzzles and their solutions especially as you progress further and further.

We had a feeling of "less polished" on this one.

Please keep doing some more though :) And thanks !

Overall a very solid puzzle. Perhaps the next one we can get a better sense of direction. My partner and I often found ourselves not knowing which puzzle to solve so we wasted a lot of time trying to solve a puzzle that was at the time, impossible. Besides that we had lot's of fun, thank you for your hard work :) Can't wait for the next.

Really liked it! Hard but worth the effort!

Tried it with 4 people 2 on each side. There were some technical glitches where some things only displayed to one player on each side and some considerable lag. The actual puzzles were good though. Maybe make the next one a bit shorter to prevent lag and shorten play time.

thanks a lot for the nice words, keeps me motivated to make more maps in the future :)
Glad you and your friend had fun!

Super fun map, my favourite yet. Definitely set aside a good chunk of time, as it can take a bit to work out some puzzles.
Worth the time and effort, always satisfying when you work out those difficult ones. Also great effort making up the guide for both maps too.
Great map!

Had a blast solving this one hard but well worth the effort

the keys are buging through the floor. don't want to restart

@Woco tyvm, I fixed that :)

Found a bug:
We broke the map by placing one plant below the blue box on the display shelf and picking it back up, removing the plant destroys the slot zone, making it so that we couldn't finish the map

Ah, that makes sense, thank you for the response.
Keep up the great ideas and creations, we're eager to see more from this series!

@Exenoxx thanks for the extensive feedback! I did expect some struggles which is why i did end up making a guide.

- I think you are talking about the colour puzzle in red1? where you have to make the colours work with the blocks you have. since you need yellow + blue to make green it only leaves red ones, hence making purple and orange. The values next to those blocks are only there to make the puzzle in Blue1 possible to solve.

- Poker Chips Red5: i can see how it can be hard to solve, I wanted to try how it goes with giving the amount of slots you have to fill as a hint. I only asked 2 people, that managed to solve it but I will consider solving another line of the puzzle!

- Red Exit door: there is no order to doing the crystal balls and it should have worked the way you did it :/

If I can think about some things I will try adding more hints. I got quite overwhelmed with the map size and keeping track myself at some point..
Thanks for playing both the maps :)

Interesting sequel

I never comment on ES maps, but since the original Shared Effort is mine and my friends favourite map so far, I want to share some thoughts. In short, we felt this map was extremely difficult even with hints, but still fun nonetheless.

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@Eboboy thanks for the feedback. I thought using a black background might be a good way to indicate its a hint for the black room :) ill see if i can find a way to make them bit more obvious

Quite good map, but some puzzles are not so obvious even with the hints. btw, 'hidden hits' are quite hard to notice due to it's black background.

Absolute stunning map! Nice Puzzles, begging for more!

@746589 thanks for the feedback! yea writing the guide took quite the toll one me, ill fix that :D
about the glitching i dont think i can do much, there is obstacles everywhere but the lag will make it possible to glitch through regardless.. thanks for playing! :)

This room was awesome! Loved the first one and this one is brilliant. Great puzzles, thank you for making these.

We were stuck on the dominos and ended up just guessing the last two, however;
Looking at the walkthrough it mentions to follow the pattern 1. Black - 2 | empty, 2. White - 3 | 4 -- but in the room it is actually 1. Black - 2 | empty, 2. White - 3 | 2

Random bug:
Sometimes during the room stutter, Blue Player accidentally glitched through walls into Red Player's room and couldn't glitch back through.

@man_angry Im silly for not thinking about this. I added a button that activates when you get access to both pressure plates. If you only saw yet, you could go further. I will add a guide when im done with it, as most people will probably get stuck at some point

i got part way through but to progress further i think i had to stand on a yellow mat and do something on the other side while the mat was being stood on. that didnt work with only one player

@mang_angry thanks for pointing that out, it should work now

im trying to play it singleplayer but i cant interact with the red swap buttons, ive tried restarting the map but i just cant press them, it doesnt even give me the prompt.