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There is currently a bug on startup, so you might not be able to play through the game as intended. Working on fixing it. If you are a Twine/html/macro witch/wizard, let me know!

Hi Matt,
Thank you so much. Some Twine hacking would really be appreciated! I want to learn more html, but that "unexpected error" drove me nuts for hours. I fiddled with it, read documentation, tried changing the story format, tried different browsers, but in the end I ran out of time... If you can help me make this playable without having to manually remake the whole thing in another format/syntax, that'd be awesome. :) 

Hi Horatiuromantic,
Thank you so much for your kind feedback. This was my first game jam after giving birth, so the theme "pending" really resonated with me after experiencing the combo of covid and a relatively isolated pregnancy. 
Someone else mentioned the wait bug too... it's not supposed to just stop there, that would be a bit cruel to the player! Never-ending suspense, oh no! 
I feel really motivated to finish the project after reading comments like yours, so I really hope I can fix the technical issues. Seems like a few friendly programmers might be coming to my rescue... :) 

Thank you so much for sticking to playing through the story, despite that damn error! Yep, living through covid has been so much about pending, waiting, and dealing with uncertainties. There are some weird parallels between those universal feelings and what I experienced during my first pregnancy, so that's what I started writing about. And then I couldn't stop... and then came the deadline, before I reached a satisfying conclusion. Oh well..!
Thankfully, we reached a happy ending - or rather a beginning! The rest of my pregnancy went well, and in October we became parents to a healthy little boy. Now he's seven months old and is just figuring out how to crawl, pull cables, eat grass, and all those wonderful things. Parenting is a crazy ride, but I'm grateful every day. 

Hi Radu-Constantin,
Thank you so much for the nice feedback. I'm glad you like the story, despite the technical difficulties.
When the game plays as it's supposed to, there are some extra lines of text fading in after a few seconds. Otherwise, the wait gets a lot longer than intended. I'll look into the bug - thanks!

Hi Rasmus,
Thanks for the heads-up. I had a lot of trouble getting the Twine game to work properly after uploading on itch.io
I managed to get the game to work on my own domain, but only when I use Microsoft Edge. It's here: Nordic Game Jam: Pending (amandarasmussen.dk) Not sure what goes wrong in Chrome and Firefox, but I suspect it has to do with the sound macros, as some browsers don't allow websites to play sound unless the user interacts with the page first. I'll try to pick the brain of the friendly programmers and hopefully I'll find a solution! :)