Easy Come. Easy Go?
Yesterday I came across a brochure for Studio 2 Publishing that I must have had since Origins or Gen Con from last summer. I was flipping through it and came across a page for a new game called Slaughter Gulch. I had never heard of it before, but as I was reading the description I started getting pretty excited about it.
Slaughter Gulch was announced in January 2007. Here’s a brief description of the game from that initial press release:
Pinnacle Entertainment, the producers of the Origins Award-winning Deadlands and Savage Worlds, and miniature game hits, The Great Rail Wars and Fields of Honor, announces the arrival of Slaughter Gulch in 2007. The game features quick gunplay in the Deadlands universe and multiple, non-collectible, faction sets each with five pre-painted figures and Western terrain.
A pre-painted creepy western miniatures game? Dang! That sounds awesome! I love pre-painted games, and this one sounds really cool.
So, as soon as I got to my computer I looked it up. Obviously, it wasn’t out yet. But, hey, it’s the game industry. Delays happen all the time, right?
Well, much to my disappointment, I found out that the plug has been pulled and the game shelved.
Here’s the announcement on the PEG Forums:
Hi all,
The printer we had originally worked with to create the game gave us fantastic prices that allowed us to make the game we wanted. Unfortunately, that printer seems to have vanished, and none of the other companies we’ve talked to can come anywhere close.
We still want to do Slaughter Gulch, but at this point it will have to be deemed a noble experiment that didn’t work out. Maybe down the road this will change, but for now it’s “Dry Gulched.”
No one is more disappointed than me, but the good news is with that work off our plates we’ll refocus on some of the books you’ve all been patiently waiting for.
Thanks as always for your support, and if anything changes, I’ll let you all know.
Man. That stinks. From excitement to disappointment in less than two hours. Here’s hoping Slaughter Gulch sees the light of day someday.
