InMediaRes Productions
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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Electronic publishing Role-playing games |
| Founded | 2003 |
| Founder | Loren L. Coleman Heather Coleman Randall N. Bills Tara Bills Philip DeLuca |
| Headquarters | |
| Subsidiaries | Catalyst Game Labs Battlecorps |
| Website | defunct, formerly imrpro.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 5 February 2012) |
InMediaRes Productions, LLC is an American game company that produces role-playing games and game supplements.
History[edit]
Loren L. Coleman founded the company InMediaRes Productions in 2003 with Heather Coleman, Randall Bills, Tara Bills, and Philip DeLuca.[1]: 433 InMediaRes obtained a license from WizKids in fall 2003 for the electronic publication of fiction from Classic Battletech.[1]: 433 InMediaRes announced this at GenCon 36 that year and their full website, BattleCorps.com, was ready one year later in August 2004.[1]: 433 InMediaRes started by publishing the fiction written by founders Bills and Coleman, and continued month-by-month with an electronic delivery model.[1]: 433 InMediaRes announced their intentions in 2005 to begin a similar "Holostreets" website for Shadowrun fiction but this was never completed.[1]: 434 After changes to the license for InMediaRes in 2007 and 2008, some of the fiction from the BattleCorps website was published in print as Battletech Corps Vol. 1: The Corps (2008) and Battletech Corps Vol. 2: First Strike (2010).[1]: 434
Rob Boyle and Bills tried to purchase FanPro LLC from Fantasy Productions in 2007, and when that deal fell through WizKids came to mediate; although they would not allow Boyle and Bills to start a new company, they did give the Battletech and Shadowrun licenses to InMediaRes.[1]: 435 With the rights to both FASA games, Boyle and Bills joined InMediaRes as regular staff as part of their agreement with WizKids.[1]: 435 Boyle stayed as the line editor on Shadowrun for a few years, and Bills left the line director of Battletech to take on the role of a Managing Director of InMediaRes.[1]: 435 InMediaRes created a subsidiary to hold the game rights they had acquired: Catalyst Game Labs.[1]: 435 InMediaRes highly valued electronic material, and in 2007 started charging for Shadowrun releases from Catalyst.[1]: 436
Company information[edit]
InMediaRes Productions was founded in 2003 by Loren and Heather Coleman, Tara and Randall N. Bills[2] and Philip DeLuca with the express purpose of licensing the rights to publish new, canon Classic BattleTech fiction to the Internet from WizKids.[3] Wizkids granted this license to IMR in the fall of 2003, which directly led to the creation of BattleCorps in August 2004.[4] In 2005, IMR announced its intentions to branch out into Shadowrun fiction and established Holostreets with the intention of doing for Shadowrun what had been done for BattleTech.[5] IMR hopes to have Holostreets up and running by 2008.[6]
On April 20, 2007, IMR announced that it was in negotiations with WizKids and FanPro to acquire the licenses for Classic BattleTech and Shadowrun, as FanPro's licenses were set to expire.[7] On May 17, 2007, IMR announced the creation of Catalyst Game Labs in preparation for the acquisition of the licenses.[8] As of mid-2007, Catalyst began releasing new sourcebooks for both lines.
Heather Coleman serves as IMR's executive manager, while Loren is the submissions editor for BattleCorps.
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
- ^ "I-CON 27 :: April 4-6, 2008 at Stony Brook University". Archived from the original on 2008-12-01. Retrieved 2007-10-10.
- ^ InMediaRes Productions, LLC and WizKids, Inc in talks for rights to publish Classic BattleTech fiction. (©2002–2007 WizKids Inc.)
- ^ "InMediaRes Productions, LLC". BattleCorps.com. Archived from the original on 2007-04-08.
- ^ "SOLA and HoloStreets (ShadowrunRPG.com, August 27, 2005)". Archived from the original on August 30, 2006.
- ^ FanPro FAQ (v1.0, FanProGames.com, December 1, 2006)
- ^ "InMediaRes Productions LLC. Enters Negotiations For The Classic Battletech And Shadowrun Licenses From WizKids Inc". BattleCorps.com. April 20, 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-05-14.
- ^ "InMediaRes Productions, LLC, Forms Imprint: Catalyst Game Labs". BattleCorps.com. May 17, 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-09-29.
External links[edit]
- CatalystGameLabs.com
- "www.holostreets.com Mailing Lists". 28 August 2008. Archived from the original on 28 August 2008. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
- BattleCorps.com