Company Man - Mac Version: Download + Workaround Instructions
10-18-2022, 05:17 AM
OK, I'm sorry this took so long to get to you all.
Why Mac had issues:
For those who are curious, the reason why the Mac builds never worked is because, since we were an unknown, zipped application being downloaded from the web, Apple didn't trust is. So when you unzipped the app they silently put a quarantine program on the game, preventing it from reading/writing files. Normally this wouldn't matter except that we read/write files when we save and load games. (We only read/write files from within the application obviously, we don't look at anything outside the main game folder.)
This inability to properly save/load caused the cascading issues which you are all familiar with.
The Workaround:
- First, download the game as usual and extract it to your Documents Folder:
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- Make sure to name it "Game.app"
- Open a Terminal window (instructions for those who don't know:
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- In the Terminal go to your Documents folder. To do this type cd /Users/{yourusername}/Documents and hit Enter
- So I would type cd /Users/AdmiralThrawn/Documents
- If your username has a space in it you may need to include quotation marks around "/Users/Admiral Thrawn/Documents"
- Now type this command to remove the quarantine from the game: xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine Game.app
With luck, this
should solve your problems. We've tested with some people and it has worked for them. However, if you run into trouble or if some of the instructions are unclear, I'll be around to provide assistance.
Thanks again for your patience, and sorry for how long this took to figure out.
-Thrawn