Thanks. Yes, I’m planning to release the game on Steam. The store page should be ready around autumn. I’m using itch.io just as a free platform for promotion, since you can’t sell NSFW content there — or rather, the game would disappear from search and indexing, which is why I stopped selling it there.
I have just rebuilt the game and re-uploaded the archive. Please try downloading it again to see if the new build fixes the issue.
Since I don’t own a Mac myself, it can be a bit tricky for me to troubleshoot macOS-specific bugs firsthand.
I reached out to an AI tool to analyze your issue, and here are the recommended steps if the fresh download still won’t open:
Remove the macOS Quarantine.
macOS often silently blocks newly downloaded apps from launching.
You can bypass this using the Terminal:
Open the Terminal app on your Mac (press Cmd + Space and type “Terminal”). Copy and paste the following command, then press Enter:
bash
xattr -cr /Applications/LaylaShatteredHopes.app
(Note: If the game is not in your Applications folder, type xattr -cr with a space at the end, and then drag-and-drop the game’s .app file directly into the Terminal window before pressing Enter).
The built-in macOS utility sometimes corrupts file permissions inside Ren’Py ZIP folders during extraction.
Delete the current extracted folder.Extract the new ZIP archive using a free alternative like The Unarchiver or Keka, then try launching it.
If it still won’t open, we can force macOS to show us the exact error:
Right-click (or Ctrl-click) on LaylaShatteredHopes.app and select Show Package Contents.
Go to Contents → MacOS.
Double-click the executable file inside (usually named LaylaShatteredHopes).
A Terminal window will open. If the game crashes, please copy and paste the text from that window and send it to me.