Sure 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.

As 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.

Hardly “everybody”, I for one hadn’t heard of Gartic until now.