A Short Hike

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Trouble opening game on mac

A topic by mettzo created Jun 11, 2020 Views: 918 Replies: 7

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mettzo3 years ago (1 edit) (+1)

I just downloaded A Short Hike as part of the Bundle for Racial Justice. When I try to open it on my Mac, the game seems to start up and show a couple opening logos (Unity and Humble Originals), and then crashes, with a warning that says: "A Short Hike quit unexpectedly." I've tried this a few times with the same results.

I have OSX, but not Catalina (I saw some reports here that the game has trouble starting on Catalina). Has anybody else run into this problem, or have some tips for how to start the game?

Either way, thank you for making this game, I'm really looking forward to playing it.

dearbrookebryan3 years ago

I had the same problem! I was looking forward to playing, I hope this gets resolved.

dearbrookebryan3 years ago

I had the same problem! I was looking forward to playing, I hope this gets resolved.

adamgryuDeveloper3 years ago

Hey, sorry about the crash! Could you supply me with this info?

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Sorry that you encountered a bug! To help me figure out what's going on, here's information that might be useful to me:

1. What operating system are you on? What version?
2. What controller(s) are you playing with?
3. Did the game freeze, soft-lock, or crash?
4. Does the issue happen every time or just sometimes?
5. What is your graphics card?

If the game soft-locked / froze / crashed then there might be useful information in the log file. Usually, the end of the file is where the most useful information is.

Windows: C:\Users\<your username>\AppData\LocalLow\adamgryu\A Short Hike\Player.log
Mac: ~/Library/Logs/Unity/Player.log

Including this info in your report may help me out!

mettzo3 years ago

I am running OSX 10.9.5. I'm controlling with my keyboard (though the game crashed before I got to play). I've tried launching the game about 5-6 times with the crash happening each time, right after the opening logos. My graphics card is just an Intel Iris (my computer is a bit old). Thanks for responding! I'm excited to play your game eventually.

adamgryuDeveloper3 years ago

Hmm, would you be able to access the logs for me by any chance?

They should be available here: ~/Library/Logs/Unity/Player.log

It might have relevant crash info in it. Note, this file is overridden any time you boot a Unity-engine game.

carelesslabs3 years ago

Works through the ITCH launcher, do not download directly.

emettely3 years ago (1 edit)

I was having some trouble opening the Mac OS app as well.

I found this set of instructions to be helpful (from Art Sqool - by jeremychu) even for A Short Hike. If you replace the app name with AShortHike, it should work!:

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The latest upload still doesn't work on Catalina. Seems like the executable doesn't have the executable bit set.

I got it to work by doing this (bit involved):

Open up terminal

1) Got to the folder where you downloaded the game and enter the Contents/MacOS folder, for example:

cd "/Applications/itch.io/Art Sqool mac.app/Contents/MacOS"

Your folder might be different than "/Applications/itch.io/"

2) Set the executable bit then try to open it by running these commands:

chmod +x "Art School 2k19"

open "Art School 2k19"

MacOS will complain that it can't be opened. Click OK. Don't close the terminal window yet.

4) Go back to Finder and find the game. Right click or Ctrl-click on the 'Art Sqool mac'icon. Select Open in the popup menu.

MacOS will complain again.

5) Go back to the terminal window and try to open again.

open "Art School 2k19"

6) Go back to Finder and open like in step 4.

This time select Open when the popup window appears.

7) Attend Art Sqool! :)