Monsters & Memories is currently under development, it is considered a proof-of-concept, and has not entered pre-alpha. We do run intermittent public tests as needed. It is best described as an old-school, low-poly, fantasy MMORPG based on the gameplay, social interaction, and sense of being in a virtual world that we loved in classic era (early 2000s) MMORPGs. You may find out more about the game here - https://monstersandmemories.com/
While we hope to have a native MacOS client at some point for Apple silicon Macs, we do not at this time. Luckily it can be played via Crossover without major issues.
I'm starting this thread for any tips & tricks to get M&M installed and operating as smoothly as possible. The below steps were taken on a M1 Macbook Air with Crossover 24.
My method to install & have a shortcut -
- Download the MnMLauncher from the account page on the website
- Click the install icon in the bottom left in Crossover
- Click install an unlisted application at top right
- Create the bottle
- Point it to the MnMLauncher
- Let launcher start, just close it - you're left with an empty bottle with nothing in it
- Make sure the MnMLauncher is in a folder where desired, such as your bottle's C: drive
- Hit Run Command
- Hit Browse
- Point it to the MnMLauncher exe
- Click Save Command as a Launcher (it may take a minute for it to light up)
- It should create the icon like my SS below, you might be able to close without progressing any further, then just run it via the shortcut, but may have to play around with it a bit.
Suggestions -
- Toggle D3DMetal to help eliminate some graphical glitches with lighting & red screens
- Lower resolution and turn off available graphical options to increase performance - it is playable, but not super performant on the M1 Air
Known Issues -
- The patcher when initially opened might show as a black box - wait a minute and it will load (this is behaving better for me with the latest version of Crossover)
- You may have an issue with not being able to select the checkbox to save your password (this is also behaving better for me)
- The patcher will patch and start to download. It can run a bit intermittently, and can sometimes stall - just restart it.
- In-game, there are some old UI elements which may not display text, this should be fixed as the game is developed
- Other minor graphical glitches may be possible such as some buggy or missing textures
Other -
- Please feel free to join our Discord @ https://discord.gg/monsters-memories-847846851478945802
- Crossover related issues are not something we can handle much troubleshooting on, I would encourage you to support Crossover, vote for this game on the overview page, and open bug reports here with anything involving Crossover's translation.
- The main current barriers to proceeding further with native non-Windows builds involve needing to rewrite our Launcher to support platforms other than Windows, as well as changing our mouse controller. We currently have no eta on prioritizing those things.
- The launcher not starting is also the main issue with running the game on free options like Whisky out-of-the-box, if you have steps to get the game running on one of those, please reach out.
- If you are reading this to catch some mention of running the game on Linux - several in our community have already done so fairly easily, please feel free to reach out in our Discord for information on that. I do not currently have a version of Linux installed to give Linux Crossover instructions.