The Sieve and the Siphon is the tale of a young Sieve operator and her journey into a mysterious cavern, one holding secrets to the past. Will those secrets solve her current woes? Or will they just make things worse?



Discover multiple paths within the cavern and uncover peculiar truths about its dwellers, and an enigmatic object known as the Siphon. Once you’re done you can play again and make different choices to uncover even more!

NOTE: Keep the game open until you finish it! I don't yet have an autosave in place, but that's planned for future updates.

Controls

After you've read each passage, click the appropriate link to proceed. Some are the only links on the page, while others are choices you're presented with.



How I Made This

I used a combination of Typora and Visual Studio Code to compose the body of the story.

Typora and Visual Studio Code to compose the body of the story. The font used throughout the game is the Google Font Voltaire.

Passages were written in Twee syntax and compiled with the Tweego compiler.

Twee syntax and compiled with the Tweego compiler. The CSS was preprocessed with Stylus.

Stylus. The title graphic was created with a combination of Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo.

Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo. More on my process will come in a blog post after doing so for my other games. Stay tuned here or on my blog for updates!

Changelog

1.1.1

Fixed

Minor text fixes.

1.1.0

Fixed

The third path should work as intended, having the option to go from one room to the others instead of just to the last one

The first room in the third path was blocked by an error

Added

Theme Switch feature At the beginning of the story you can now choose a theme in which to display text and images You can choose from the following: Default, Light, Newsprint, Gruvbox



1.0.0

Added