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Hi! Sorry to hear that you're experiencing troubles.

v1.2-77 works on my Macs. As part of ongoing initiatives under the guise of "security," Apple have been making it progressively harder for developers to distribute games without engaging in Apple's distribution mechanisms, which is part of why I do not officially support anything newer than 10.14.

My best guess is that MacOS has "quarantined" Hive Time, and is displaying the "Hive Time is damaged" error when it would historically have shown a warning about the application being from an "unidentified developer." I'm uncertain why this is affecting the v1.2 build for you and not the v1.1 build, but you may be able to use the xattr command line tool with the -cr options to remove the quarantine flag from Hive Time.app.

Alternatively, you can install and run Hive Time through the Itch App, which will bypass that nonsense.

I would be interested to hear more about the glitching you were experiencing. If you have a save or a log file you're willing to share, please send that along with a description of the behaviour you were seeing to the support address listed in the "Technical help" section here on the store page.

Hope that helps!

UnoTheCard2 years ago

That helped a lot. Thanks

although the it's still glitchy it's playable and fun

Cheeseness2 years ago (1 edit)

I would like to hear more about the glitches you are experiencing. I haven't had any reports or seen anything during testing/development that matches that description.

If you have a save or a log file you're willing to share, please send that along with a description of the behaviour you 're seeing and some screenshots (if it's visible in screenshots) to the support address listed in the "Technical help" section here on the store page.

UnoTheCard2 years ago

the glitch makes the game "shake" varying in severity, it's usually the bees flashing out of existence and then coming back but some times the map would also "shake" and "flash"

Cheeseness2 years ago

Hmm, definitely haven't heard of anything like that before. You're saying it only happens when storage is full, and stops once you use some resources or construct more storage? If the game is running slowly, does this still happen if you disable shadows and particles, and turn antialiasing off in the Video Settings menu?

I'd definitely be keen to see a log file and some system specs (in particular CPU, RAM, graphics chipset, and VRAM, but a model number should be enough for me to look that up if you're on Apple hardware). If you're able to get a short video, that would be helpful too. Best to send those through via email, since the log contains your home folder path when outputting where it saves games to.

Cheeseness2 years ago

Hi! I haven't seen any of the files/information I requested come through. If you've send them and they didn't make it to me, let me know!

UnoTheCard2 years ago

I tried to take a photo and take a video but neither worked. For now you'll just have to believe my word(you probably shouldn't)

Cheeseness2 years ago

It's not that I don't believe you, it's just that I can't reproduce this and don't have enough information to guess at what might be happening, which leave me with no ability to even attempt to address the problem.

If the issue doesn't show up in images captured via the in-game screenshot key (P), then that would be useful to confirm.

The main thing I've been asking for though, has been your save file and a copy of the game log from a play session where the problem has occurred. Are you planning to send those through?

UnoTheCard2 years ago(+1)

nevermind, I found that turning off all the fancy graphic settings fixed the issue. I am sorry for using your time, it was just because my gaming system is weak af.

Cheeseness2 years ago

I'm glad to hear you're up and running!

It would still be nice to know your system specs so that I can identify commonalities with anybody who experiences similar things in the future.

Hope you enjoy the game! :)

MindlessFungus2 years ago

I have the same problem with 1.2 on Catalina. The "unidentified developer" message is something different. I get that too with other apps and know how to fix it. It's not that.

Cheeseness2 years ago

Without more information, there's not much I can do. If you could answer the questions and provide the information requested in this post, that will help me look into the problem.

Cheeseness2 years ago

Hi! I haven't seen any of the files/information I requested come through. If you've send them and they didn't make it to me, let me know!

MindlessFungus2 years ago

There is no video I can send you. The app doesn't start. I get an error message, which is in German and says exactly what UnoTheCard already posted. It includes a button with a question mark. If I click that button, I get to the explanation telling me "The app has been modified and its code differs from the original signed code." My machine is a mid-2012 MacBook Pro Retina running Catalina. Hope that helps.

Cheeseness2 years ago (3 edits)

Oh, I see! Since I'd given UniTheCard a solution, I had misread and assumed that you were talking about the visual glitching they also reported.

Launching the game through the Itch app should get you up and running. Alternatively, using the xattr command line tool with -cr flags on Hive Time.app should make it behave, but if you're not familiar with working in a terminal, that's likely to be fiddly.

Sorry for the mixup!

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