Mac Store Publishing HELP NEEDED

DigiChainDigiChain Member, PRO Posts: 1,288
edited January 2012 in Working with GS (Mac)
I'm trying to publish to Mac Store using the guide from T-Shirts Cookbook video.

I follow the process and GS sends back to me 2 files - the game.pkg and another file that I believe to be the game for me to play test? Unlike T-shirts video the game file doesn't have the game icon though (just an application symbol).

I've setup my Test User account in itunes to test this with but when I try to open it using this account (or any other random account in fact) it just times out and states 'Connection Failed'.

It would be nice to test it on mac before blindly uploading the .pkg to the mac store.
Am I doing something wrong?

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  • beefy_clyrobeefy_clyro Member Posts: 5,394
    The non-icon is a known issue they're working on.

    When you try and publish through GS there is a link to take you to the Mac portal, from there you setup your ad-hoc certificate, install that and publish with that. Then you just double click to play the file without the icon (that would have an icon if there wasn't an issue).
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  • DigiChainDigiChain Member, PRO Posts: 1,288
    Cheers Beefy,
    I just re-published exactly as I had before and it worked fine 2nd time!
  • beefy_clyrobeefy_clyro Member Posts: 5,394
    Excellent
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  • DigiChainDigiChain Member, PRO Posts: 1,288
    Ok - now trying to upload the .pkg to mac store and receiving this error:

    The product archive is invalid. The application bundle does not contain an icon in ICNS format, containing a 512x512 image.

    Is this due to the known issue? And if so does this mean nobody is able to publish mac store games right now?!
    If so - how long has this been an issue, and how long likely until its fixed?
  • gregr209gregr209 Member Posts: 441
    This issue has been ongoing for over a week or two...I have a Valentine's Day app that doesn't look like it is going to make Valentine's Day this year due to this problem. Hopefully with the release of .90 it will be fixed. Hopefully. Pretty darn frustrating but at least we have the banner up top letting us know there is a issue. Otherwise I would have been wasting my time constantly trying to publish again and again and again.
  • DigiChainDigiChain Member, PRO Posts: 1,288
    Ok - I wondered what that banner was all about because my iphone / ipad apps have been submitted fine.

    So basically the issue is with GS not packaging our app icon within a Mac Store published app?
  • DigiChainDigiChain Member, PRO Posts: 1,288
    As the 'submitting to apple problem' banner has now gone - does this mean GS have sorted the issue?
  • DigiChainDigiChain Member, PRO Posts: 1,288
    Just tested - and we still can't build and publish to the Mac Store!

    Same error:
    The product archive is invalid. The application bundle does not contain an icon in ICNS format, containing a 512x512 image.

    This is very frustrating - When will this be fixed?
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