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Everybody was playing GarticPhone while the author was developing "the game that almost died". Things developers are the worst at: 1. Market research
by thiago_fm 5y ago
Everybody was playing GarticPhone while the author was developing "the game that almost died".
Things developers are the worst at:
1. Market research
- mnd999 5y agoSure if you want to build a business. If you just want to write some code and have a bit of fun with friends and learn a few things then it doesn’t really matter. I built something similar during Covid, another parlour game we call “Colander of Death” (it probably has many other names). It’s never gonna go viral but we had fun with it.
- stochaztic 5y agoAs the person who built the version that got popular enough for the Gartic company to build a competitor, I can say some developers are also the worst at having any design sense whatsoever, or adapting to competition ;). I am morbidly curious if the simple website ads are sufficient--unlike myself and this author, they clearly have a lot more than just one person working part-time on their version, so presumably it brings the company money somehow.
- iainmerrick 5y agoHardly “everybody”, I for one hadn’t heard of Gartic until now.
- cableshaft 5y agoSo yeah, not everybody, but it's definitely not an unknown game. 747 viewers watching Twitch streamers play or playing along with the streamers right this moment. I've also seen it a lot higher than that. Pretty sure it's the most popular form of this game at the moment, besides the Telestrations board game. https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Gartic%20Phone https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Gartic%20Phone