There are a lot of things that indie games can get away with that you’d never see in AAA titles, but this must be the strangest example I’ve ever seen.
Quartet is a classic, retro-styled indie RPG developed by a four-person team who call themselves Something Classic Games that launched in late August.
It’s been pretty well received by critics, with a “Mighty” rating on OpenCritic and “Very Positive” with its relatively few reviews on Steam, but that’s not why the game has been going viral lately.
It’s pretty rare for a game to get any attention from anything related to its settings menu; when it does, it tends to come from difficulty settings, camera options, or accessibility options, but Quartet has something you’ll never see even in text-heavy games like the Trails or Final Fantasy series: a toggle for the Oxford comma.
‘He Added The Setting When No One Was Looking’
According to Quartet director Patrick Holleman (via PC Gamer), the Oxford comma toggle came from the game’s lead programmer, Pete, when Holleman said a specific line didn’t need a comma, and clearly Pete disagreed.
Then, while the rest of the team was busy dealing with...
