Hey there! This game looks very interesting and I'd love to give it a go! Unfortunately, it looks like there's some sort of bug in the Mac version that keeps in from launching properly. Every attempt will show developer credits, the NSFW warning, and then an immediate crash before anything else occurs. I hope this isn't too big of a fix!
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Our best suggestion would be to try launching the gaming using a program called nw.js which can be found at
1.) Download the game .zip file via the MacOS backup link at the bottom of the game description, and extract the folder (Grove_0.204) to the desktop.
2). Download the normal version of NW.js and transfer the app to Applications.
3). Go finder > utilities > terminal and use the following command to launch the game (the "name" should be your username for the file path):
open -n -a nwjs --args "/Users/name/Desktop/Grove_0.204”
If this is all a little too technical, I do apologise. We'll do our best to look into the issue, but... that's a bit difficult when the game just crashes with no error message.
First off - thank you for all your help! I greatly appreciate how quickly you've been responding. I finally had a moment to take a crack at this tonight, and figured I'd report back.
I went ahead and grabbed nwjs and used the terminal command you provided me! I had to tweak the file path just a little to make sure it aligned with the folder names, as a straight copy/paste didn't accomplish anything. I went ahead and tried a file path for both the layers of folders alongside the app for the sake of completeness. Didn't want to accidentally mess things up, as I'm not sure what I'm doing.
The end result of this was the same error being thrown by nwjs every attempt - "Manifest file missing or unreadable." I'm hoping that's a clue for your bug hunt, and not an indication of me mangling the command somehow!