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Mac you have to allow permissions and allow it through Gatekeeper.Meanwhile I can't even get it to open on my Mac
You can build yourself Mac like I do for my compressed versions.Turns out that the root cause of Market builds not working on a Mac is because of the Quarantine imposed by Gatekeeper on files downloaded from anonymous sources such as Mega etc. This will almost always happen to games downloaded using the links posted here and is not limited to Ren'Py games only. RPGM and Unity games can also be affected by this.
This probably also explains why the game does work for somebody on the developer's team.
When you shuffle the components around as described in my method linked by Bob69, you are effectively creating a new app for yourself, hence Gatekeeper does not intervene.
As an alternative, you can remove the quarantine from the Market build with the xattr command in Terminal. Personally I prefer my method because that method creates a self contained Mac app and leaves less clutter.
Check the Ren'py version in the file script-version.txt and download the matching Ren'Py SDK. Details and instructions in this post https://f95zone.to/threads/how-to-create-a-mac-version-of-any-renpy-game.3289/post-3532643
Caveats: Gatekeeper might quarantine the SDK, so you will need to fix that first if it happens.