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Hey! I really wanted to check this one out but the mac application says it cant be opened, do you know how to open it?

Ah! Yeah, I'm on Mac, too and this can be a nuisance. The issue is that Mac is trying to protect you because it's an unofficial app. The only way around it is to use Terminal to override Mac being Mac. You'll need to open Terminal and type: chmod +x 

With a space after the 'x'. Then, drag and drop the App into the Terminal window to autofill the path. Press backspace once to remove the extra space, then add: /Contents/MacOS/*

So, the finished Terminal line might look like this: chmod +x /Users/Mio/Downloads/BucketHead.app/Contents/MacOS/*

Tutorial from:

https://superuser.com/questions/1127274/the-application-exampleapp-can-t-be-open...

Here's an older walkthrough of other people running into this issue with itch.io games on Mac:

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Out of curiosity, I'm also using Unity, how did you get yours to build without running into this issue? Did you click anything special in the build settings? For instance, did you use the Target Platform set for both Intel and Apple Silicon or just do it individually? Something else? Would love to know if you know for my future reference.

Okay thanks ill check it out tomorrow. This vid fixes the webgl stuff:

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Oh as for the stand alone build i dont really change anything apart from the resolution stuff, for me it just has a mac and a windows option. Mine has a similar mac issue where you have to force it to open through the settings but yours just says its not allowed

Thanks for the resource! I'll try this out.

You can download the itch.io app for mac, which lets you easily install mac builds.

Whoah! That works perfectly! Thanks for the tip!