Scuttle Buggery
August 16th, 2009 by John Wolfe
Over the last two years, I’ve become a huge fan of the creative design team known as My Pet Skeleton and an avid player of their (free) game, A Murder of Scarecrows. But recently, I placed the act of shooing ravenous Corvus on hold and decided to put another My Pet Skeleton game, Scuttle Buggery through its paces. Though it has less of a Halloween-type theme than ‘Scarecrows,’ it’s visually stunning and the most fun you can have with your cursor keys.
It’s your job, as a beetle, to maneuver droplets into drains before the “Beetlejuicer” (pictured) goes medieval on your scarab behind. Along the way, there’s plenty of other insects running interference between you and your objective. It’s a challenging game set in dank, funky surroundings.
A cool feature about Scuttle Buggery is the soundtrack. One of the purposes of moving through each progressive level is to unlock more of Johnny Hollow’s goth-like, steampunk music. The band is comprised of Vincent Marcone (of My Pet Skeleton), Janine White and Kitty Thompson. I’ve included a sample video of one of my favorite songs from the game called “Stranger.”
Scuttle Buggery’s soundtrack can be found on Johnny Hollow’s 2008 album, “Dirty Hands.” After playing the game, I’m looking forward to picking up a copy. Dirty Hands is going to receive a lot of wear on my shop stereo during the next two months of Halloween prep and prop work.
Video source: You Tube user mypetskeleton
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August 16th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Holy Moly John!!!! This makes the scarecrow game seem easy as pumpkin pie
This would take some mastering, to say the least. I love the little creepy sounds along the way though, very cool. Nice find my friend, as always of course 
August 16th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
LOL! Yeah, the higher you advance, the more obstacles between you and the precious drain. Did you get dizzy on the spins?
August 17th, 2009 at 1:10 am
Yes, I found I could not play the game nearly as long as I can the scarecrow game or any of my other video games. Plus I never did fancy not being able to see the whole screen lay out at once. Granted, once you know where the drain is then your set but I still found I didn’t enjoy looking through a small circle as opposed to the entire layout. Still a good game and excellent video design but out of their 2 games, scarecrows is still my top pick. Perhaps it’s also because I have such fond memories associated with the game……YOU know what I mean
LoL, now I know for sure I could never survive the Tea-Cup ride again at Disneyland……ahhh age 
Gotta love it!
August 17th, 2009 at 2:34 am
It’s strange, but I really get some motion sickness stirred up from those spins too. I completely understand about the scarecrows being your favorite and the reason why. Speaking of that… I think I’m going to have to play both games before getting some sleep.