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I was so excited to download the game, but I've run into an issue with playing the Mac Version of the demo; I open the ZIP Folder and when I try to open the "OverNight" application, I get a popup saying "The application "Overnight" can't be opened" with no other explanation. I was wondering if I could get some help? 

Hi Dowsing, I apologize for the inconvenience. I found a forum that might help you with your issue. Hopefully this helps!

How to install MAC games from itch.io? : r/macgaming

Your MacOS files are not saved as executables (saved docs). Manually changing them seems to have fixed it.

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Inside the application (right click/control + click) you can select Show Package Contents. Then navigate through the folders Contents -> MacOS. There's 5 files there that are saved as docs (out of 6). You need to convert them to executables. 

Launch your Terminal app, 'cd' to the correct directory where the application is saved (using 'ls' (that's a lowercase L) can show you all the folders you can cd into), 'cd' into the application's contents to the same MacOS folder, and then use the command 'chmod 755 OverNight' to convert, repeating for the other 4 files.

Hope this helps!

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Thank you so much Cyberfruit! You are a lifesaver! I am still new to building the package for downloads.  Forgive my inexperience. I will have your comment pasted to the instructions.

can you help with the Mac download? Can't figure out how to make the docs into executables xD I'm able to cd Downloads , but then I'm lost, computer keeps telling me that it cant find an "OverNight" file