Ok, so my recommendation is that you do the following:
- Go to the Dashboard and create a new projects
- Open the project in Defold
- Right click on game.project and chose Show in Finder/Explorer
- Remove everything except .git and .gitignore
- Unzip example.zip in this location
Please follow these steps and let me know if it works or not. Please attach a screenshot and any additional information if things doesn’t work.