An interesting story about a one man MMO project (well, he enlisted help of his wife along the way), is the postmortem for Eternal Lands. It was a popular read

An interesting story about a one man MMO project (well, he enlisted help of his wife along the way), is the postmortem for Eternal Lands. It was a popular read on now defunct Devmaster.net website. It's available through Web Archive here: https://web.archive.org/web/20110303214710/http://www.devmaster.net/articles/mmorpg-postmortem/part1.php https://web.archive.org/web/20110303214710/http://www.devmas... It's an interesting throwback to the era before common availability of production-grade game engines like Unreal or Unity, back when everyone worked on their own Direct3D/OpenGL engine.