Eyup, still working on updates! Ran into some blocks in the path, but with how things look. We should have the next updates released at the latest June 4-5th. The following update after that is already being worked on and will be done by the end of June.
Hi! There is diapers, which focuses more on the DL aspect. That does include seeing used diapers at times. (Visually discoloring and shape will be changed/or seen with this on them.)
Below are a few that stick out that might be more fetish hit or miss for some, but these below ones are more linked to when you get into route episodes with a girl. (These should be hinted at before getting into their route.)
We'll look into releasing a IOS Apple Store version when the game is fully finished, but until then. We might look into getting our normal versions released along the way available for download through other means.
This seems to be a on-going issue with Android that we'll need more details and testing with. The takeaway of our light testing so far seems to be that it might be a storage or ram usage issue in loading assets. (Hence not being able to proceed) But we can't say for sure, there's been claims of it working on other peoples phones and some in house testing within the team for our personal phones with it working.
One thing we're going to do that should offer a fix is that someone has mentioned Ren'py itself has some sort of issue on it's more recent version of the engine software, so when we release v0.18, we'll be running it off of a previously working Ren'py software version to test that out.
FWIW same issue here, none of the main menu options do anything. It's a Pixel 2 XL too with 6GB of free space and plenty of RAM; positive it's not a hardware issue.
Android Version 11, Security Update Oct 5 2020 and Google Play System Update from Aug 1, 2021 (latest available updates for the device; no new updates to come). Game version 0.18.
Real shame, was hoping to have something fun to play on my phone. Device is only 4 years old, real shame if support only exists for latest and greatest yearly devices for whatever reason. :(
Thank you for bringing it to our attention, similar to other mentions too! It'll better help us in fixing the releases for Android. ^^
We're going to take a look at some improvements for Android in order to prevent issues like this. Naturally our end goal isn't for the latest and greatest phones to be able to run the game, but rather it's most likely going to require some extensive compressing of assets/resources for the game on our end to help make it better performed on mobile devices. (Only issue with this is that it might not be 100% perfect still along the development process, as we firstly test the Windows/Mac versions and everything is built in mind for computer use firstly and mobile is more of a second thought.)
Not to make it sound like a bad thing towards mobile users, as we want the option for many to play on their mobile devices with each update made to the game during development. But it's mainly just to keep things rolling along smoothly, that we prioritize Windows/Mac in mind first and we're mostly just porting that very same version to mobile currently. ^^" (Hence the file size/spec requirements.)
Ideally within our next update or two, we'll hopefully be able to apply some changes for the mobile versions of v0.19 & v0.20 coming up for public to fix the file size/specs and continue to do some adjustments when it comes to the mobile versions if possible.
Sorry for the issues though. >.< Hopefully some testing can be done with v0.19 before hand, the only issue with that is each device will vary. My phone is a Samsung Galaxy note 10 sadly, so it's a bit more recent still kind of, so I can't recreate the issue on my device when testing. Bare with us though! <3
Gotcha! I believe someone else had the very same issue with the game not launching or when it did launch, it was stuck loading assets on the title screen asking them if they'd like to close the program or wait. I believe they had to free up more storage (either turn off some background processes or just delete some apps they don't use.) In order to get it working.
We'll also be keeping an eye on this as the game continues to update monthly and slowly increases in file size, so that we can figure out how to cut down on it being too much space for phones.
That's odd. >.< When the game is launched, it doesn't show anything like this does it?
It's possible there's a spec requirement for Android phones to figure out, which might take some testing among users but I'll pass some notes along to our engine programmer and see if we can figure something out about this.
I won't outright say which upcoming episode we'll end up seeing her or said event, but episodes 1-5 are seen as the common route and general setup of story. So we'll see all the characters introduced by episode 5, some events are going to be route related though. I'd say if the cosplay madness event will most likely be part of Lola's episode 6 or 7.
It's hard to pinpoint how far off until that point, but our expected releases coming up in 2021 Q1 are as follows. -Feb 5th (public: Episode 3) (supporter: Miki's Dream side story) -March (public: Miki's Dream) (supporter: Episode 4) -April (public: Episode 4) (supporter: Episode 5) -May (public: Episode 5) (supporter: Episode 6 [roughly 3-4 girls])
Hope that gives an idea of things as we head into 2021 ^^
First, I’d like to say that Messy Academy is the best diaper-related visual novel game I know of and I’m considering becoming a supporter, which is kind of radical for me, but to me what you are doing is true art, not just more boring porn. However, I had some thoughts I’d like to share, and I recognize I’m just one opinion among many so nothing may come of this, but I wanted to say something anyway. I’m pretty gender fluid bordering on trans and have always identified more with my feminine side in daily life and so when it comes to VN games or manga/anime I tend to automatically identify more with the female characters and see things from their point of view. This is why I struggle to enjoy “harem” style stories because I can almost never identify with the male lead. I just fail to feel much of a connection to male characters. So, when I play Messy Academy I feel like the proverbial square peg in a round hole because in real life I feel much more like Miki, or Juliet, or Erika, but I don’t feel like Brandon at all. He and I simply don’t get along! I recognize that for a VN to be commercially successful it has to primarily cater to the widest possible audience, which I assume are males who do identify more with Brandon’s character, so I understand the direction the design of the game has gone from that perspective. Having said that, I would feel much more emotionally connected to the characters if there was an option to play as a female character in place of Brandon. This would also come with two additional benefits in terms of game play structure that I can see. First it would provide a way to start the game without a need for the whole hacking of the school’s computer to change the student records thing which would simplify the storyline, and second I think it would also provide a way to play Erika’s route romantically even if the characters are genetically-related as it would make the whole incest problem not so off-putting.
Anyway, that’s my 2 (or maybe even 3) cents. I hope nothing I say offends; I just really wish there was a way to play the game as a girl too! Btw, Miki, and Erika are my favorite characters and I struggle to decide between them, but I like several others as well. I think you did a very nice job with character design. I’m sorry this is such a long comment! I looked for a way to send it to you somewhere else but didn’t see any obvious way of doing so. Thank you for all your hard work!
No offense by any means! :P Thanks for the well thought out and well said mentions! <3 We hope you'll continue to enjoy the game and if you do choose to support us, we'd be very welcoming to that as well. ^^
I think this is one of our most requested brought up suggestions is to look into offering a female choice for the protag in the story and I'll say we are looking into it. But it might possibly take a bit of time before we do begin handling it, as we're trying our best currently to keep our focus less split up as possible and come back later towards the end of development with additional things.
With that said though, we have been thinking about it and how to possibly tackle it. Without trying to hype it up and fail on our delivering of it, we're talking about two options possibly to run with. Option (A) would be simply offering the player the choice between Brandon or a new female character who roughly follows through events of the game fairly similarly to him. Option (B) would be instead, offering players to play through the game as Erika as the female protag and tackle things from her point of view.
We still have much to think about and figure out about said options of course, as we have to wonder if the female protag option would cover options to date the male cast only or if there's the path to date the other females. We'd have to figure how that would fit with Erika based on her character (no spoilers). When the time does come for this, we'd most likely engage with our fans/supporters across our social platforms to see what feels the best in terms of handling the dating aspect, etc.
Hopefully that leaves you feeling hopeful for the future of the project as it fleshes out more, but maybe not too over hopeful or hyped. As we don't want to over sell or over hype on something we can't deliver on, but this is one of our most requested things and so it's safe that we'll see something in regards to it. :P
Thank you for the detailed response! I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only one who feels similarly. And I do agree with you that the best economic and public opinion policy to follow here is to under-promise and over-deliver as opposed to the other way around. Both options A and B seem like the most logical to consider. From the perspective of a player of the game I'm always interested in seeing a new character developed but I assume option B would take less time and money.
I must confess that I like having a sister character as a route in the game. So if something like option B were implemented and I was Erika, then who would be my sister in the game then? Any Japanese-styled VN game worth the name needs to have a sister character right??
As for dating the male characters from a female perspective, its not that I'm against the idea as such, but I think that if such routes were to be created it might be best if they were treated as secondary options because at least from my perspective, forcing the female characters to interact romantically with the male characters no matter which gender the user plays the game as rather undercuts the potential of playing as a female character in the first place, and puts me kind of back in the same situation I'm in now just from the opposite viewpoint. To put it another way, if I don't like to play as a certain male character now, then I'm not going to be interested in having to date said character either. But in the end it's not my game and I don't want to seem like I'm trying to force my opinions onto anyone. I hope that perhaps by sometime next year or the year after that development will have progressed to such a point that these concepts will be in more active consideration.
I tried the game and it seemed fun until I got to John and then my problems begin :I
1.Dude looks like me
2. Dude has my name and and is pisces like me
3.He comes across as a creepy pervert rather then a teacher...
4.I end up hating him which just makes me hate myself because of The facial similarities and name sharing xD
So overall I liked the game but I think he’s a deal breaker for me I don’t need to play a game with a creepy pervert version of me in it if this could be changed I’d surly comeback but I am just 1 person with this issue so I understand if it’s ignored.
Sorry about that! John isn't quite leaving or being changed visually, but with the next upcoming update on Nov 4th. It'll be showing a lot of adjustment in how John comes across in the game, making him much less creepy full on pervert and more awkward teacher trying to get through his day. :P
I look forward to that xD just because I didn't ask too many questions on a lot of the story elements like the 1 school rule :3 (because at the end of the day it's a porn game so you can't ask too many or it falls apart xD) but he was where I was starting to think did this dude also hack into the school and put his name on the list xD
P.S I hope I didn't offend you I mean no ill will toward you :)
The update coming out on Nov 4th does a huge improvement on the early content of the game. It's a bit crazy to say the least with just how much more better handled things come across as a first impression on new players with this update, so hopefully once it's out. It'll be a very welcomed change as we move forward. ^^
I look forward to it :) and I just worry when I give criticism that people will think I am just being mean I don't talk to people much due to social anxiety so I just worry about these things >-<
We have some good news coming very very soon for those waiting on more support! ^^ We'll see Mobile support possibly by Nov 4th with updates 0.15 & 0.16
Apologies for not replying sooner, I have been experimenting on my computer and have figured out how to run the game (at least for me). My method is for Mac computers running 10.15 Catalina as the OS. I’m hoping this will also work for 11.0 Big Sur as well but no promises.
Step 1: download the latest Messy Academy Update mac.zip file to your desktop. At the time of this writing that is 0.13.5. When this file is downloaded it will appear as a folder on your desktop titled Messy Academy update 0.13.5 mac.
Step 2: Download the fix command file to your desktop. This will appear as a SHELL file titled Fix_Permissions.command
Step 3: Drag and drop the Fix_Permissions.command file into the Messy Academy update 0.13.5 mac folder. It should appear in the folder as a third item along with a credits.html file document and the game program Icon titled Acadamy_Reboot.
Step 4: Open the Terminal program on your mac located in the Applications folder.
Step 5: Now you need to execute on the SHELL file. With a terminal command window open enter: chmod u+x
Step 6: Now with both the Terminal window and the Messy Academy update 0.13.5 mac folder open side by side drag and drop the Fix_Permissions.command file into the terminal window just in front of the chmod u+x text. If done correctly the path to the file should appear so in general the complete command line should read chmod u+x /path/to/Fix_Permissions.command with the /path/to/ part varying depending on your mac’s file structure.
Step 7: Hit Enter in Terminal. Terminal should then execute on the SHELL file.
Step 8: Now click on the Academy_Reboot icon in the Messy Academy update 0.13.5 mac folder. The game should open just fine now.
A note on the previous instructions. One of the major areas of confusion is that on a mac the "tyranoscript.app" name for the game container file is hidden until the game actually opens and so saying “Place "Fix_Permissions.command" file in same folder as "tyranoscript.app"” does not help on a mac because you won’t know where to put it.
Sorry about that >.< glad to hear it's working and hope you'll enjoy the game! I'll copy your steps here and put them into the information as part of Mac fix/running the game.
The rar file won't open or the program won't start up? I sadly can't test mac version personally, but someone was kind enough to mention this for a fix if there's issues trying to fix the mac version.
[Mac user guide!] Step by step guide for Mac users! (credits to Ben for the support! <3 )
I've tried to find the folder containing "tyranoscript.app" by double tapping on the program icon and choosing "show package contents" but its nowhere to be found. So I have no idea how to implement this patch. Simply trying to open the program gets me the error message "The application “Messy_Academy_Reboot” can’t be opened." Please help! Thank you!
I should start by saying I sadly have zero understanding of Mac os sadly <.< But it should be downloaded as a zip file. Then export the folder inside onto your desktop or somewhere fitting.
From there I don't think the game shows a client/app to open? Maybe it just doesn't for me with Windows os. It's worth a shot, but did you give this fix a try? (We've had other Mac users have success with this.)
Sorry, I'm not sure you understood. That troubleshooting step is exactly what I tried and it does not work for me. I downloaded the "Fix_Permissions.command" file but there is no folder with a "tyranoscript.app" in it that I can find so I have no place to put the "Fix_Permissions.command" file. I can download the "Messy_Acadamy_Reboot" file just fine and it downloads to my desktop as a folder containing a credits.html file and an unknown program icon that will not open.
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When is the next update?
Coming very soon! It's expected roughly by May 7th.
Its may 30 are you still making the updates dev?
Eyup, still working on updates! Ran into some blocks in the path, but with how things look. We should have the next updates released at the latest June 4-5th. The following update after that is already being worked on and will be done by the end of June.
Alright keep it up dev!
Can someone tell me what fetishes are in this game ?
Hi! There is diapers, which focuses more on the DL aspect. That does include seeing used diapers at times. (Visually discoloring and shape will be changed/or seen with this on them.)
Below are a few that stick out that might be more fetish hit or miss for some, but these below ones are more linked to when you get into route episodes with a girl. (These should be hinted at before getting into their route.)
-fart/aroma fetish
-bdsm/femdom
-watersports
-humiliation
-petplay
-crossdressing
Will an IOS version be released on Apple Store?
We'll look into releasing a IOS Apple Store version when the game is fully finished, but until then. We might look into getting our normal versions released along the way available for download through other means.
Who made the art?
Depends on which art field. :P
Sprite Artist: LisadiKaprio
(Last one mentioned above won't be seen until v0.18 releases.)Cg Artist: MarxeDP
Chibi Artist: Narukkod
Bg Artist: Olivson
Miki's Dream bg art: Fuyunokawa
I can't get past the main menu on android :c every time I click an option it does nothing
This seems to be a on-going issue with Android that we'll need more details and testing with. The takeaway of our light testing so far seems to be that it might be a storage or ram usage issue in loading assets. (Hence not being able to proceed) But we can't say for sure, there's been claims of it working on other peoples phones and some in house testing within the team for our personal phones with it working.
One thing we're going to do that should offer a fix is that someone has mentioned Ren'py itself has some sort of issue on it's more recent version of the engine software, so when we release v0.18, we'll be running it off of a previously working Ren'py software version to test that out.
I just downloaded v17 on Android last night and 0 issues. Maybe your device or Android version is under-powered and can't load it properly.
FWIW same issue here, none of the main menu options do anything. It's a Pixel 2 XL too with 6GB of free space and plenty of RAM; positive it's not a hardware issue.
Android Version 11, Security Update Oct 5 2020 and Google Play System Update from Aug 1, 2021 (latest available updates for the device; no new updates to come). Game version 0.18.
Real shame, was hoping to have something fun to play on my phone. Device is only 4 years old, real shame if support only exists for latest and greatest yearly devices for whatever reason. :(
Thank you for bringing it to our attention, similar to other mentions too! It'll better help us in fixing the releases for Android. ^^
We're going to take a look at some improvements for Android in order to prevent issues like this. Naturally our end goal isn't for the latest and greatest phones to be able to run the game, but rather it's most likely going to require some extensive compressing of assets/resources for the game on our end to help make it better performed on mobile devices. (Only issue with this is that it might not be 100% perfect still along the development process, as we firstly test the Windows/Mac versions and everything is built in mind for computer use firstly and mobile is more of a second thought.)
Not to make it sound like a bad thing towards mobile users, as we want the option for many to play on their mobile devices with each update made to the game during development. But it's mainly just to keep things rolling along smoothly, that we prioritize Windows/Mac in mind first and we're mostly just porting that very same version to mobile currently. ^^" (Hence the file size/spec requirements.)
Ideally within our next update or two, we'll hopefully be able to apply some changes for the mobile versions of v0.19 & v0.20 coming up for public to fix the file size/specs and continue to do some adjustments when it comes to the mobile versions if possible.
Sorry for the issues though. >.< Hopefully some testing can be done with v0.19 before hand, the only issue with that is each device will vary. My phone is a Samsung Galaxy note 10 sadly, so it's a bit more recent still kind of, so I can't recreate the issue on my device when testing. Bare with us though! <3
when is the next update? Please speed up the next update .. Thank you..
It'll be sometime in mid April for next update. ^^
Oke, Thank You for Confirmation..
I LOVE IT
Very happy to hear that! ^^ <3
Every time I launch the game it doesn't allow me to click any buttons any suggestions of what to do
Which os version and is this with Version 0.17 or the other previous versions?
It's with Android and 0.17 version so idk what to do
Gotcha! I believe someone else had the very same issue with the game not launching or when it did launch, it was stuck loading assets on the title screen asking them if they'd like to close the program or wait. I believe they had to free up more storage (either turn off some background processes or just delete some apps they don't use.) In order to get it working.
We'll also be keeping an eye on this as the game continues to update monthly and slowly increases in file size, so that we can figure out how to cut down on it being too much space for phones.
I did all the things you told me to and it's still not working so I don't know even more lol
That's odd. >.< When the game is launched, it doesn't show anything like this does it?
It's possible there's a spec requirement for Android phones to figure out, which might take some testing among users but I'll pass some notes along to our engine programmer and see if we can figure something out about this.
Sorry that this issue is popping up. >.<
in what update do you meet Lola in the cosplay madness day?
edit: i mean in the upcoming finished updates rather than 0.14.5
I won't outright say which upcoming episode we'll end up seeing her or said event, but episodes 1-5 are seen as the common route and general setup of story. So we'll see all the characters introduced by episode 5, some events are going to be route related though. I'd say if the cosplay madness event will most likely be part of Lola's episode 6 or 7.
It's hard to pinpoint how far off until that point, but our expected releases coming up in 2021 Q1 are as follows.
-Feb 5th (public: Episode 3) (supporter: Miki's Dream side story)
-March (public: Miki's Dream) (supporter: Episode 4)
-April (public: Episode 4) (supporter: Episode 5)
-May (public: Episode 5) (supporter: Episode 6 [roughly 3-4 girls])
Hope that gives an idea of things as we head into 2021 ^^
First, I’d like to say that Messy Academy is the best diaper-related visual novel game I know of and I’m considering becoming a supporter, which is kind of radical for me, but to me what you are doing is true art, not just more boring porn. However, I had some thoughts I’d like to share, and I recognize I’m just one opinion among many so nothing may come of this, but I wanted to say something anyway. I’m pretty gender fluid bordering on trans and have always identified more with my feminine side in daily life and so when it comes to VN games or manga/anime I tend to automatically identify more with the female characters and see things from their point of view. This is why I struggle to enjoy “harem” style stories because I can almost never identify with the male lead. I just fail to feel much of a connection to male characters. So, when I play Messy Academy I feel like the proverbial square peg in a round hole because in real life I feel much more like Miki, or Juliet, or Erika, but I don’t feel like Brandon at all. He and I simply don’t get along! I recognize that for a VN to be commercially successful it has to primarily cater to the widest possible audience, which I assume are males who do identify more with Brandon’s character, so I understand the direction the design of the game has gone from that perspective. Having said that, I would feel much more emotionally connected to the characters if there was an option to play as a female character in place of Brandon. This would also come with two additional benefits in terms of game play structure that I can see. First it would provide a way to start the game without a need for the whole hacking of the school’s computer to change the student records thing which would simplify the storyline, and second I think it would also provide a way to play Erika’s route romantically even if the characters are genetically-related as it would make the whole incest problem not so off-putting.
Anyway, that’s my 2 (or maybe even 3) cents. I hope nothing I say offends; I just really wish there was a way to play the game as a girl too! Btw, Miki, and Erika are my favorite characters and I struggle to decide between them, but I like several others as well. I think you did a very nice job with character design. I’m sorry this is such a long comment! I looked for a way to send it to you somewhere else but didn’t see any obvious way of doing so. Thank you for all your hard work!
No offense by any means! :P Thanks for the well thought out and well said mentions! <3 We hope you'll continue to enjoy the game and if you do choose to support us, we'd be very welcoming to that as well. ^^
I think this is one of our most requested brought up suggestions is to look into offering a female choice for the protag in the story and I'll say we are looking into it. But it might possibly take a bit of time before we do begin handling it, as we're trying our best currently to keep our focus less split up as possible and come back later towards the end of development with additional things.
With that said though, we have been thinking about it and how to possibly tackle it. Without trying to hype it up and fail on our delivering of it, we're talking about two options possibly to run with. Option (A) would be simply offering the player the choice between Brandon or a new female character who roughly follows through events of the game fairly similarly to him. Option (B) would be instead, offering players to play through the game as Erika as the female protag and tackle things from her point of view.
We still have much to think about and figure out about said options of course, as we have to wonder if the female protag option would cover options to date the male cast only or if there's the path to date the other females. We'd have to figure how that would fit with Erika based on her character (no spoilers). When the time does come for this, we'd most likely engage with our fans/supporters across our social platforms to see what feels the best in terms of handling the dating aspect, etc.
Hopefully that leaves you feeling hopeful for the future of the project as it fleshes out more, but maybe not too over hopeful or hyped. As we don't want to over sell or over hype on something we can't deliver on, but this is one of our most requested things and so it's safe that we'll see something in regards to it. :P
Thank you for the detailed response! I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only one who feels similarly. And I do agree with you that the best economic and public opinion policy to follow here is to under-promise and over-deliver as opposed to the other way around. Both options A and B seem like the most logical to consider. From the perspective of a player of the game I'm always interested in seeing a new character developed but I assume option B would take less time and money.
I must confess that I like having a sister character as a route in the game. So if something like option B were implemented and I was Erika, then who would be my sister in the game then? Any Japanese-styled VN game worth the name needs to have a sister character right??
As for dating the male characters from a female perspective, its not that I'm against the idea as such, but I think that if such routes were to be created it might be best if they were treated as secondary options because at least from my perspective, forcing the female characters to interact romantically with the male characters no matter which gender the user plays the game as rather undercuts the potential of playing as a female character in the first place, and puts me kind of back in the same situation I'm in now just from the opposite viewpoint. To put it another way, if I don't like to play as a certain male character now, then I'm not going to be interested in having to date said character either. But in the end it's not my game and I don't want to seem like I'm trying to force my opinions onto anyone. I hope that perhaps by sometime next year or the year after that development will have progressed to such a point that these concepts will be in more active consideration.
there's such a thing called "reverse harem"
Hm? If you're wondering if MA is a harem only or harem focused game. You choose one girl to date as you lead into their route.
Sorry, I was responding to what the dude or girl said. They didn't know that a reverse-harem is the term he/she meant to say.
I tried the game and it seemed fun until I got to John and then my problems begin :I
1.Dude looks like me
2. Dude has my name and and is pisces like me
3.He comes across as a creepy pervert rather then a teacher...
4.I end up hating him which just makes me hate myself because of The facial similarities and name sharing xD
So overall I liked the game but I think he’s a deal breaker for me I don’t need to play a game with a creepy pervert version of me in it if this could be changed I’d surly comeback but I am just 1 person with this issue so I understand if it’s ignored.
Sorry about that! John isn't quite leaving or being changed visually, but with the next upcoming update on Nov 4th. It'll be showing a lot of adjustment in how John comes across in the game, making him much less creepy full on pervert and more awkward teacher trying to get through his day. :P
I look forward to that xD just because I didn't ask too many questions on a lot of the story elements like the 1 school rule :3 (because at the end of the day it's a porn game so you can't ask too many or it falls apart xD) but he was where I was starting to think did this dude also hack into the school and put his name on the list xD
P.S I hope I didn't offend you I mean no ill will toward you :)
No offensive! :P
The update coming out on Nov 4th does a huge improvement on the early content of the game. It's a bit crazy to say the least with just how much more better handled things come across as a first impression on new players with this update, so hopefully once it's out. It'll be a very welcomed change as we move forward. ^^
I look forward to it :) and I just worry when I give criticism that people will think I am just being mean I don't talk to people much due to social anxiety so I just worry about these things >-<
I understand! ^^ Eyup, no worries here by any means! Judgement free space here for all ^^
This game has unlocked a new fetish for me, I like this alot
Happy to hear that! ^^
still waiting for Android version 😗
We have some good news coming very very soon for those waiting on more support! ^^ We'll see Mobile support possibly by Nov 4th with updates 0.15 & 0.16
Update, Mobile support very likely for Dec 5th. ^^
Apologies for not replying sooner, I have been experimenting on my computer and have figured out how to run the game (at least for me). My method is for Mac computers running 10.15 Catalina as the OS. I’m hoping this will also work for 11.0 Big Sur as well but no promises.
Step 1: download the latest Messy Academy Update mac.zip file to your desktop. At the time of this writing that is 0.13.5. When this file is downloaded it will appear as a folder on your desktop titled Messy Academy update 0.13.5 mac.
Step 2: Download the fix command file to your desktop. This will appear as a SHELL file titled Fix_Permissions.command
Step 3: Drag and drop the Fix_Permissions.command file into the Messy Academy update 0.13.5 mac folder. It should appear in the folder as a third item along with a credits.html file document and the game program Icon titled Acadamy_Reboot.
Step 4: Open the Terminal program on your mac located in the Applications folder.
Step 5: Now you need to execute on the SHELL file. With a terminal command window open enter: chmod u+x
Step 6: Now with both the Terminal window and the Messy Academy update 0.13.5 mac folder open side by side drag and drop the Fix_Permissions.command file into the terminal window just in front of the chmod u+x text. If done correctly the path to the file should appear so in general the complete command line should read chmod u+x /path/to/Fix_Permissions.command with the /path/to/ part varying depending on your mac’s file structure.
Step 7: Hit Enter in Terminal. Terminal should then execute on the SHELL file.
Step 8: Now click on the Academy_Reboot icon in the Messy Academy update 0.13.5 mac folder. The game should open just fine now.
A note on the previous instructions. One of the major areas of confusion is that on a mac the "tyranoscript.app" name for the game container file is hidden until the game actually opens and so saying “Place "Fix_Permissions.command" file in same folder as "tyranoscript.app"” does not help on a mac because you won’t know where to put it.
Hope this all helps someone in the future!
Sorry about that >.< glad to hear it's working and hope you'll enjoy the game! I'll copy your steps here and put them into the information as part of Mac fix/running the game.
Won't open on mac :(
The rar file won't open or the program won't start up? I sadly can't test mac version personally, but someone was kind enough to mention this for a fix if there's issues trying to fix the mac version.
[Mac user guide!]
Step by step guide for Mac users! (credits to Ben for the support! <3 )
Download fix command: Here
Place "Fix_Permissions.command" file in same folder as "tyranoscript.app" then double click it. (possibly right click or ctrl+click and choose open)
In terminal you need to give the script +X permission to run.
Should work after loading (give it some time! >.<" )
I've tried to find the folder containing "tyranoscript.app" by double tapping on the program icon and choosing "show package contents" but its nowhere to be found. So I have no idea how to implement this patch. Simply trying to open the program gets me the error message "The application “Messy_Academy_Reboot” can’t be opened." Please help! Thank you!
Also is the program supposed to download as an rar file? For me it's downloading as an application that neither my mac (nor I) can identify.
I should start by saying I sadly have zero understanding of Mac os sadly <.< But it should be downloaded as a zip file. Then export the folder inside onto your desktop or somewhere fitting.
From there I don't think the game shows a client/app to open? Maybe it just doesn't for me with Windows os. It's worth a shot, but did you give this fix a try? (We've had other Mac users have success with this.)
Download fix command: Here
Place "Fix_Permissions.command" file in same folder as "tyranoscript.app" then double click it. (possibly right click or ctrl+click and choose open)
In terminal you need to give the script +X permission to run.
Sorry, I'm not sure you understood. That troubleshooting step is exactly what I tried and it does not work for me. I downloaded the "Fix_Permissions.command" file but there is no folder with a "tyranoscript.app" in it that I can find so I have no place to put the "Fix_Permissions.command" file. I can download the "Messy_Acadamy_Reboot" file just fine and it downloads to my desktop as a folder containing a credits.html file and an unknown program icon that will not open.