Okay, I was not expecting it to work so well. Some of the games I tried it on worked flawlessly. This particular game throws up errors when I try to access the phone. This is probably because I'm using Ren'py 8.1 and the game is likely written with a previous version. My knowledge of Ren'py is pretty superficial, but from what I understand, the difference in the version of Python can make things difficult to port over.
Thanks for the tip, though.
It took me a little while to figure this out, but how I do it on a Mac (never downloading the Mac app versions):
- Download Renpy for Mac, install Python as needed if you don't have it
- Download only the PC versions of games. Have them all in the folder with Renpy (really, just point Renpy to whatever folder you have the games in)
- Boot Renpy, launch any PC version of the game as needed
For the Phone Error on this game:
- Yes, that has to do with the version of Renpy. I go to Update on the lower right of the Renpy app (where you launch your games) between Version 8 (Python 3) and Version 8 (Python 2) depending on the game I am playing. It depends on which of those Python versions the game dev used. Most use the most current, it seems. But I think the "Straiten" guy uses Renpy 8 (Python 2). So I use that updater to roll back. Then the in-game phone works.