Complex sentence: In 1996, John Smedley was put in charge of SISA's development of an online role-playing video game that would evolve into the MMORPG "EverQuest".
Split into simpler sentences: In 1996, John Smedley was put in charge of SISA's development of an online role-playing video game. The game would evolve into the MMORPG "EverQuest".