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macOS says I do not have permission to open Game.app. What’s up?

Make sure you're playing the game in a directory that you have read/write access to. MacOS is notorious for not cooperating with RPG Maker games.

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Update: I defeated the permission thing but cannot play. read below

Hmm. I definitely have R+W privileges on the app and the folder it’s in. I set R+W privileges recursively to the Contents folder inside the .app. Nothing fixed the issue.

If I try to `open` the app in Terminal, the error message is a little more specific: 

> The application cannot be opened for an unexpected reason, error=Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-10826 "kLSNoLaunchPermissionErr: User doesn't have permission to launch the app (managed networks)"


Update: As suggested on Stack Overflow, running this command helped:

sudo chmod -R 755 /Path/to/SOT.app

Because the game is unsigned, however, it still will not run right away, but that is at least a solvable problem that advanced mac users know about.

However even once the game is running, it only shows the screen below, which i cannot advance past:


Never seen that before. Looks like Node-WebKit.js is having permissions issues as well.

Cool, man. Were you going to fix that or just let Mac users suck it?

I attempted a fix, but I don't have a way to test it, as my development machine is a PC. Is this bug still present for you?

Yep.

How/why did you release a Mac version if you can't test it?

Because I was asked by my patrons to do so. I will see what I can do about that bug. Thanks for your feedback.