Post by Winterfire in MAC Game immediately closes upon opening

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Doing chmod for this game shouldn't be necessary, at the very least try chmod -R 777, not sure if doing anything else might create issues.

As for closing at the start, my best guess is that you're trying to run the game on a low end machine or you've missing/outdated drivers. For a more accurate answer, I'd need the log (~/Library/Application Support/Winterfire/Legacy of Hestia), if no log is generated when the game closes down, it means an overlay software is preventing the game from executing.

Robodroide6 days ago

So, I reinstalled the game and tried chmod -777 in the terminal with the file inside the macOS folder, but the same thing happened . The trick is necessary because the file inside the macOS folder is not downloaded as an executable.

So I tried looking for it in the library, and neither Winterfire nor Legacy of Hestia appeared there. On that note, Vox Gremory also didn't appear, but Overlord H did under the RenPy folder, so maybe it's the software overlay thing, but I'm not sure.

Winterfire6 days ago

On Big Sur (The platform where I test it), I never had to run chmod -777 for Vox Gremory, the executable should be preserved since I use tar and Unity 2021 builds for mac without issues even on Windows.
This is how it looks like during my tests: https://imgur.com/a/rxIJscT

Not sure what's causing the issue, my best guess is that something is preventing the game from being extracted properly or to be ran at all.

Robodroide5 days ago

Okay, so I downloaded it again, but this time from a different website called Visit Mama, and it works. So I suppose its Itch thats screwing up the download because the file already came as an executable.

But still, thank you.

Winterfire5 days ago

It's probably me uploading on itch.io incorrectly, as I use Butler. My guess is that something happens to the archive during the uploading process which corrupts the executable within, similarly to what happens if I try to zip a Mac game on Windows. I'll be using tar format for packing in future, and hopefully that'll fix the issue.