Export for MacOS and Upload to Steam

[simonschreibt]

The process was not clear for me but now it works so I want to share all settings/options:

1. Export Mac Build. Here are my settings:
   

   

2. Create Mac Depot - Steam > Apps & Packages > Steamworks Admin > SteamPipe > Depots
   (and assign depot to your package)
   

3. Upload - IMPORTANT! DO NOT UPLOAD THE EXPORTED ZIP TO STEAM!
   I use the Steam command line tools for uploading. Before I do my upload, I extract the archive generated by Godot and delete the ZIP!
   

This is the code for the auto-zip-extraction:
IMPORTANT! Do NOT use “e” as command after “7z” because it will extract all files IN the .app ! We do not want this. We want just the .app and .command out of the ZIP, that’s why I used “x” as command!

7z x cozy_space_survivors-mac.zip
del cozy_space_survivors-mac.zip

3. Setup #1 - Steam > Apps & Packages > Store Admin
   

4. Setup #2 - Steam > Apps & Packages > Steamworks Admin
   

5. Setup #3 - Steam > Apps & Packages > Steamworks Admin > General Installation
   

   

Publish all changes. Done.

If you support Cloud saves, you need root overwrite paths. Here are my paths:

[anon20704045]

what? you mean to say we dont need a mac for developing our games to macos/ios?

[simonschreibt]

Yes (at least MacOS, no idea about iOS). When you export without xcode, you can not sign your app and this leads to errors, see: Running Godot apps on macOS — Godot Engine (stable) documentation in English

But: You can manually disable the MacOS Gatekeeper to run the app OR distribute via Steam and then Steam will handle this for you.

[anon20704045]

that means we can export for MacOS without Xcode and mac?
thank you

[nidel]

Thanks! it really was handy

Nice game btw, I had got some fun with your demo a few months ago!

[simonschreibt]

Thanks! The full version offers more shippies and i’m still patching it to add new nice features.

[m.jared.burt]

Thank you kindly for the post and detailing your process!

Out of curiosity, why does it not work to upload to the depot as a zip file?

SteamCmd was a level of complexity I did not really have time to get into.

[m.jared.burt]

Just to follow-up my own post, uploading to steam with SteamCmd was not that hard to learn, and very valuable in the long run…
However, I ran into issues deploying on macOS. I followed this tutorial precisely, but I’m thinking my issue was with GodotSteam. Also tried following this to the best of my ability: Mac Exporting - GodotSteam

Had some folks test it, and it was no good. My game runs fine on Windows and LInux, for reference.

[ragtag]

I was looking at the Steam documentation of this for OSX, and it says that as of October 14th, 2019 you’re required to notarize your app through Apple to upload it. Did you not need to notarize it to get it to work?

I don’t really want to pay Apple $99 annually for a developer account, just to have my game on Macs…as it’s just a hobby and annual Mac sales probably won’t cover the fee.

[simonschreibt]

True, BUT you can offer a Mac-Build and if people trust you, they can manually disable a so called “gatekeeper” which then will allow them to run your game.

[ragtag]

Thanks for the quick reply. I wound up taking the step of signing up for an Apple Developer account and going through the rather convoluted process of getting it notarized with the help of this post from numonkeys How to notarize & sign your macOSX Godot app - Godot Forums

Now I’m just waiting for it the notarization to go through. Usually this should go quickly, but it seems that sometimes it can take a long time, especially for first time notarization. The process is automatic, but I suspect that Apple gets some human involved the first time a new developer uploads something.