Henry

**Henry** (born August 27, 2006), known online as ElkSponge, is a Canadian composer, speedrunner, game developer and programmer. He mostly works with Alon Fivic Sekin to compose the music for Ethan Dahlberg's games. He has created his own games, such as *The World's Most Possible Game* and the now discontinued *Exploration Playground REDUX,* and has also developed *Exploration Playground* Update 0.9 Revival.

## Biography

#### Early life

In 2009, Henry was introduced to the Piano and started having a growing interest in music composition.

On Christmas of 2011, he had gotten his first computer, which was a Toshiba laptop. It gave him his first experience of the Internet.

In 2012, he started exploring the realm of Adobe Flash games and found the SHIFT series. He would later decide to speedrun SHIFT and attempt to get a WR in every game in the series. He has currently gotten every WR in SHIFT 1 and 3.

In 2013, after his Toshiba laptop broke, he was given a full-blown desktop PC. On July 26, 2021, after getting angry at it's very poor performance, Henry purposefully destroyed the HDD in this computer as a way to convince his parents to let him build a new one.

#### Geometry Dash

In 2014, Henry found the game Geometry Dash and started playing it everyday. His planned goal was to beat the 18 (at the time) main levels, but after it took over a month to beat Time Machine, he took a short break from the game and came back in early 2015. At this point he gave up attempting to complete all main levels and instead opted to play online levels by the community.

A few months had passed and a legendary new Top 1 level was in the works which would later be known as Bloodbath, set to be verified by Riot. Ever since it's verification and release on August 12, 2015, Henry always wanted to beat it as his last achievement in the game. On September 2nd, 2021, he fulfilled his goal of beating Bloodbath. He currently plans on beating either Phobos, Sakupen Hell or Blade of Justice as his next hardest.

#### Joining Discord

Henry joined Discord on June 14, 2020. He initially used it as a way to troll people, but later found it useful for easily talking with his then friend, Jazzdro.

On July 15, 2020, he noticed the YouTuber OSFirstTimer was starting a premiere and decided to join it early. Through it's live chat, he met Connor and Ethan, in which Ethan suggested to join his Discord server *Unofficial OSFirstTimer Server*.

He was always afraid of what people might think of him, so he frequently acted stupid and pretended it was just his bot. One of the popular phrases coming from his "bot" is the repeated use of **Egg Salad**. He continued to purposefully be extremely random and stupid, until October 20, where it was found that Connor and Mark had betrayed him. This immediately shifted his personality, for better or worse, to something more normal and expected. Henry never forgave them for this.

Around this time also saw the beginning of the **Elk = Furry** joke.

## Trivia

* His favourite Geometry Dash level is Windy Landscape by WOOGI1411, while his least favourite is Bloodbath by Riot and more.

## Social media

* Twitter
* Itch.io
* YouTube
* Twitch
* Speedrun.com