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Changeling

An Urban Fantasy visual novel that explores romance within a dangerous paranormal community · By Steamberry Studio

Opening the game

A topic by Kiddice created Jun 09, 2020 Views: 1,021 Replies: 7
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Hi!

Could you please help me open the game? its downloaded as a zip file and I'm not quite sure where to go from here.

Developer

Hello!

When you have the zip file downloaded, you should be able to unzip/extract all the files. This will create a folder in whatever destination you designate for it to unzip to. When you click inside the folder, you should see a .exe file if you're on a windows machine. I'm not totally sure what the mac version looks like - but there should be an application file in the main folder. 

If you click on that, it should open the game up!

(Using the itch app will let you open the games from the launcher itself, which is a little easier than juggling the zip files, but it's definitely not required!)

Please let us know if you have any other issues!

~Esh

hello, i had a similar problem with opening the game, i am on mac but when i unziped my download it just gave me a bunch of files that presumably make up the game but no application to actually open and play it. any idea how to get around this/find the aplication?

Developer

Hello, wigglecoin! 

Unfortunately, I don't have a mac so that limits my ability to walk you through - but can I see screen caps of what you're looking at?

I tried to get help from a friend who is a mac user but she sees only a readme file and the game application when she goes into the folder - and it sounds like you are experiencing something different.

I worry it might be a version issue - the friend has Mojave and I feel that if you're on Catalina, it is unlikely to be able to run the file (Unfortunately, Catalina has caused a lot of issues for a lot of small game devs being able to make their applications available to mac users)

~Esh

heres what i have! yes its catalina, i imagine you and youre friends have had a lot of run ins with that already. i was able to install and run some games that catalina did try to prevent but in this case there is nothing to run it seems, im not a programer so i dont know what any of the files mean/do but this is what shows up for me. if its too much effort to try and figure out whats up i understand if you tell me theres nothing to be done though. i would like to play but ultimately dont want to be an issue when theres other games too be played anyway. i didnt think there would be anything you needed to see in the 'lib' and 'renpy' files plus they would have made very long screenshots  but if you want i could also post them too this chain

Developer

Hi there! I can see from this that you actually have the windows version of the file and not the mac/osx version! (The "win" in the file stands for windows and the .exe file is also the way you launch the game in a windows OS).

You should have the option to download a file by this name: changeling-3.3-osx.zip

Can you try to download this file and see if you're able to load the game from it? 

~Esh

oh well now i feel silly, thanks for your help! it works when i actually download the right thing

Developer

No worries! I do that kind of thing all the time. Ha ha. 

I'm glad it works for you though. We hope you enjoy the game! O///w///O

~Esh