Post by Everest Pipkin in The Worm Room comments

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Hm - its a 64 bit build, but from Windows and I only run High Sierra on my Mac so its a bit hard to test. Did it give you an error?

joelmeador4 years ago

Just a popup that says 'The application "Worm_Room_mac.app" can't be opened.'

Tried from downloads folder and applications folder. Happy to try other stuff if you want help debugging.

Everest Pipkin4 years ago(+1)

Ah, my guess is that this is not an issue with the build itself but is rather a permissions issue. Are you comfortable with the command line? Can you see if the solution described here fixes it if so?

joelmeador4 years ago(+1)

Yup, seems like it. Thanks! Magic trick was:
1. chmod +x /Applications/Worm_Room_mac.app/Contents/MacOS/Worm_Room_mac

2. right click open the app in finder so you get the "trust this unverified dev" app open flow.

Everest Pipkin4 years ago(+2)

Great, thank you! Gonna leave this here if anyone else runs into this, and see if I can upload a version that fixes this from the getgo.

sailoen1 year ago

so sorry to ask, but how do you do that??? i have no idea what that is... sorry

Porglezomp4 years ago(+1)

As far as I know, just "right click > open" should let you get the permission popup, the command line things are just for that particular broken app and not all of them.

Also, using the itch.io desktop app will avoid running into this since it directly launches the apps.