Imperium Games was an American game company that produced
role-playing games and game supplements.
History
Marc W. Miller partnered with Sweetpea Entertainment to license his science-fiction property ''
Traveller'' in exchange for funding to get Imperium Games running in February 1996, as a new publisher solely dedicated to ''Traveller'' material, beginning with a new, fourth edition of the game titled ''Marc Miller's Traveller'', commonly abbreviated ''T4''. Sweetpea advanced Imperium Games seed money to launch in exchange for equity and media rights.
and
Timothy Brown, former employees of original ''Traveller'' publisher
Game Designers' Workshop
Game Designers' Workshop (GDW) was a wargame and role-playing game publisher from 1973 to 1996. Many of their games are now carried by other publishers.
History
Game Designers' Workshop was originally established June 22, 1973. The founding m ...
(GDW), came to work for Imperium Games.
also designed role playing products for ''Traveller''.
Larry Elmore
Larry Elmore (born August 5, 1948) is an American fantasy artist whose work includes creating illustrations for video games, comics, magazines, and fantasy books. His list of work includes illustrations for ''Dungeons & Dragons'', ''Dragonlance'', ...
created most of the black-and-white artwork for ''Marc Miller's Traveller''.
Chris Foss
Christopher F. Foss (born 1946) is a British artist and science fiction illustrator. He is best known for his science fiction book covers and the black and white illustrations for the original editions of '' The Joy of Sex''.
Career
Early w ...
created much of the color concept art for the new edition of ''Traveller'', produced 12 pages of artwork for the edition's first supplement, ''Starships'', and illustrated a number of covers for the line.
When Sweetpea Entertainment bought out the stock of the many creators who had worked on ''T4'' and took over some of the day-to-day operations of the company, Timothy Brown took the helm of Imperium Games under Sweetpea's guidance, and was now the only official staff for Imperium, with others acting as freelancers.
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Role-playing game publishing companies