InMediaRes Productions, LLC is an American game company that produces
role-playing game
A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of player character, characters in a fictional Setting (narrative), setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within ...
s and game supplements.
History
In 2003,
Loren L. Coleman
Loren L. Coleman is a science-fiction writer, born and grew up in Longview, Washington. He is known for having written many books for series such as ''Star Trek'', ''Battletech''/'' Mechwarrior'', ''Age of Conan'', ''Crimson Skies'', ''Magic: Th ...
created the company InMediaRes Productions, which he founded with
Heather Coleman,
Randall Bills
Randall N. Bills is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.
Career
Randall N. Bills had been a fan of '' Battletech'' back in the early 1990s when he met then-line-developer Bryan Nystul at Gen Con 27 over an all-night ...
,
Tara Bills, and
Philip DeLuca.
InMediaRes received their licence for the electronic publication of ''
Classic Battletech'' fiction from
WizKids in the fall of 2003.
They made an announcement that year at
GenCon 36 and had their full website, BattleCorps.com, ready to go a year later in August 2004.
InMediaRes kicked things off with the fiction of founders Bills and Coleman, and from there, month-by-month they continued with their electronic delivery model.
InMediaRes announced their plans to create a similar "Holostreets" web site for ''
Shadowrun'' fiction in 2005 but have not done so.
Some of the fiction from the BattleCorps website has made it to print as ''Battletech Corps Vol. 1: The Corps'' (2008) and ''Battletech Corps Vol. 2: First Strike'' (2010) – following some changes to InMediaRes' licence in 2007 and 2008.
In 2007,
Rob Boyle and Bills tried to buy FanPro LLC from
Fantasy Productions
Fantasy Productions Medienvertriebsgesellschaft GmbH (a.k.a. FanPro) is a German publishing company based in Erkrath.
History
The company was founded in 1983 by Ulrich Kiesow, Werner Fuchs and Hans Joachim Alpers to produce small metal min ...
, and when that did not work out WizKids stepped in to mediate; although they were not willing to let Boyle and Bills create a new company, they were willing to give the ''Battletech'' and ''Shadowrun'' licenses to InMediaRes.
After acquiring the rights to both