The reason I asked is I just spent a bunch of time last weekend watching a bunch of dev interviews from fairly recently and one of them was the guy who created Kunark. Said it sat in his desk for a year before it became apparent that they were going to need more content so he pitched it. But from your elaboration, what you describe isn't necessarily mutually exclusive from that, either. I was just curious.
I gather you might dig this dude's channel so here's a link...
https://youtube.com/channel/UCFl_3ktLNPYUeicLmhSvB1Q
It seems he was a junior dev at the time but has continued on in the industry. Started a twitch channel just to hang out and talk about eq and it evolved into him bringing on pretty much everybody. Sounds like he plays on p99 also. These interviews are great tho, if you like longform discussions that go deep.