Dejarik enjoyed widespread popularity.
The person who conceived of dejarik was someone born a number of years prior to the events of the Clone Wars. This person is credited with the creation of the well-known two-person strategy game, also called holochess. This individual also developed saigok, a similar game that the Twi'lek named Kaasha Bateen considered to be a more "badass" version of the game dejarik. Bateen characterized the inventor as a "madman."
The individual who came up with the idea for dejarik was initially brought up in the 2018 book titled Last Shot, written by Daniel José Older.