Ben's Realm
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Windows
  1. Unzip this somewhere you'll keep it (for example Documents). You get a folder
     called "Ben's Realm".
  2. Double-click "Ben's Realm.exe" in that folder. That's the launcher: always start
     the game with it. The very first start downloads the game (about 90 MB) with a
     progress window, then opens it.
     Windows may say "Windows protected your PC" because the game isn't signed by
     Microsoft: click "More info", then "Run anyway".

Mac
  1. Unzip it and move "Ben's Realm.app" into Applications (from Downloads it can't
     keep itself up to date).
  2. Open "Ben's Realm.app" (the launcher; always start the game with it). The first
     start downloads the game (about 140 MB) with a progress window, then opens it.
     The game itself is kept in ~/Library/Application Support/Ben's Realm.
     If the Mac says "Ben's Realm" Not Opened (Apple hasn't checked the app),
     click Done (not Move to Bin), open System Settings > Privacy & Security, scroll
     to the bottom and click "Open Anyway" next to "Ben's Realm", confirm with your
     password or Touch ID, then open it again and choose Open. Only the first time.

Your account
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The first time, choose "Create an account" (a name and a password). Keep "Remember
me" ticked and the game logs you in by itself next time; "Log out" (top right of
the character screen) forgets it. Your characters belong to your account: nobody
else can play them.

Multiplayer
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On the login screen choose "Multiplayer" to play in Ben's Realm's one shared world
with everyone else. Beside it you can see how many players are online right now.
Your characters there are kept on the server and belong to your account.
"Singleplayer" is a world of your own, saved on this computer.

Updates
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Updates install themselves: when there's a new version, the login screen says
"Updating to version ..." and restarts into it after a few seconds. If the world
has just updated and yours hasn't yet, yours updates to match and puts you straight
back into the world (Windows and Mac players play together either way).
Updates are signed by the game's developer, and anything without that signature is
refused.

Saves
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Multiplayer characters are saved on the world's server. Singleplayer characters are
saved on this computer, in
  Windows: %APPDATA%\Godot\app_userdata\Ben's Realm\saves.sqlite
  Mac:     ~/Library/Application Support/Godot/app_userdata/Ben's Realm/saves.sqlite
Updates keep everyone's saves. An older version of the game refuses a save made by
a newer one (and leaves it alone), so always play with the newest version.

Developer cheats (the Developer button) only work in singleplayer.
