see list of oz characters smith & tinker . smith & tinker type privately held industry entertainment founded april 2007 1 headquarters bellevue washington u.s. 2 key people jordan weisman joe lawandus tim lebel charles merrin ryan kyle products nanovor revenue 29 000 000 number of employees 40 website http www.smithandtinker.com smith & tinker was an american electronic entertainment company founded in february 2007 by jordan weisman jeremy bornstein lenny raymond and kev ray . 3 weisman later brought in tim lebel and joe lawandus . on october 15 2007 they announced that they had licensed from microsoft the rights for weisman s previous creations of mechwarrior shadowrun crimson skies and other fasa titles and would be announcing their plans for these intellectual properties at a later date . 4 the name of the company was based upon the fictional characters smith & tinker an artist and an inventor who are briefly mentioned in the land of oz series of books as the creators of tik tok the machine man . this was evidenced by the mention of emerald city on the company web site and the use of tik tok in the company logo . 5 the first game from smith & tinker was called nanovor . 6 nanovor was an online battle game targeted to 7 12 year olds . nanovor was released to public beta in may 2009 . 7 contrary to rumour smith & tinker was not in any way involved with mechwarrior online as after the failure to find funding for mechwarrior 5 in conjunction with piranha games piranha bought the rights to the mechwarrior franchise and has been the sole owner since february 2011 . 8 smith & tinker closed down november 8 2012 . 9 external links edit smith & tinker nanovor nanovor cartoons references edit stealth startup of the week smith & tinker . 2008 02 13 . retrieved 2008 03 20 . whois search . resume of jeremy bornstein . retrieved 2010 03 25 . smith & tinker is pleased to announce that it has licensed from microsoft the electronic entertainment rights for mr. weisman s previous creations ... . 2007 10 15 . retrieved 2008 02 07 . messrs. smith & tinker have assembled in the emerald city . retrieved 2008 02 08 . nanovor . connect collect & battle with nanovor . 2009 05 27 . bullock russ . president . piranha games . retrieved 24 february 2014 . smith & tinker crunchbase . retrieved 2015 03 23 . this united states video game corporation or company article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title smith % 26 tinker & oldid 653146095 categories video game companies of the united statesprivately held companies based in washington state companies based in bellevue washingtonunited states video game company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 23 march 2015 at 12 05 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view