Portfolio
2018 – Pyxel, My Self-Titled Debut Album
Pyxel, formerly named MyloJH, was my debut album. It was a disparate compilation of various songs I had made at the ages of 11-12, and I uploaded it to youtube and soundcloud.
2019 – Mubbo
Mubbo was my first venture into game development. It was a game I had thought up, where the player controlled the character Mubbo through a honey-themed world on an adventure to save his pet snail from a mutant cat.
I made an array of sprites and music, and used it all to create the titular character and a scene where the player could walk around with the game engine Godot. I was very new to game development, especially with Godot, so there was veyr limited functionality but it served as a great example of what Mubbo could be. In addition, I also created a wiki where I could expand on the world, plot, characters, and animals.
I made a fair amount of music for it; themes, soundtrack music, and others songs for it, the songs all had a bouncy, fun, synth timbre; but my favourite song on the Mubbo soundtrack was Snue. Snue was the snow village theme, a relatively short song which approximated the mental conception I had for Mubbo the closest compared to the other music I had made for Mubbo.
2020 – Just Little Man Things
As time went on I began to get a greater and greater feel for how to make a cohesive album and how to make a story of it, and this led to Just Little Man Things - the first of my great projects.
It was an album based in a world where little green people had taken over the city of Michigan following a nuclear detonation, but these themes were rarely explored. Rather, the album served as an outlet for weirdness and absurdity, with electronic and acoustic songs all connected by a theme of strangeness.
2020 – The Opule
In 2020, I tried my hand at planning out a fantasy book. I had many ideas for it, but it was largely disorganised and not written down due to my lesser knowledge of how to take notes, plan, and write things down.
Many things were consistent though: the main character, Wendle, and his pet snail, Snurble. The two would have to go on a quest to bring a vital source of water to their village to save Wendle's mother, Bell. Snurble would later be cursed in the plot to have fur, which Wendle would have to wash throughout the story.
At the end of the story, Snurble would be corrupted by a gem known as The Opule and be turned into a monster that Wendle would have to destroy (A bit too lord of the rings-esque... ) before his quest would end.
The book was abandoned quietly, but served as the spiritual predecessor to my modern book, especially in its fantasy themes. My book is very fantasy-inspired, but attempts to take the genre in its own direction without relying on predefined races and tropes.
2020-21 – Voyd
Voyd was intended to be an album of mine, but eventually turned out to be abandoned at the length of an EP. The songs were serialised, so there was little chance to put it on the shelf and not post it all at all, leading to its status. It was a heavily thematic EP about falling into the crease of a sofa into a cosmic realm where anything could be found, and each song served to express this journey in its own way.
2021 – Splottle
Splottle was my second venture into game development. I made very little music for it, owing to its uniqueness and my desparation in finding the right musical vibe, but I developed it as a game very far. I had been learning Unreal Engine 4, and had already learnt Blender (a 3D modelling program), and tried my best to make Splottle – a vitual pet-meets-farming-meets-3D platformer game.
The player would be working for the Splottle corporation, feeding a creature known as the Snorb as to harvest its eggs. The player would find special foods to feed the snorb, and would gain money by selling the eggs among other materials gathered. The USP of the game was the presence of repercussions, it would have an extensive system where the player's treatment of the Snorb would affect the reputation of the company, the health of the snorb, and the ending.
Eventually, I lost interest in Splottle, partly due to the creation of my book. However, I got very far with Splottle, and someday I wish to pick it back up and continue development as I created a very solid foundation that still holds up.
2021 – Omnislug
And as my confidence grew, I attempted to begin singing. This led to the creation of Omnislug, a song about growing up to be a great celestial slug. It was the first expression of my fondness for nature, forest creatures, fantasy, and worldbuilding, as the music video I hand-animated digitally featured a lot of nature shots and a small slug creature dancing and singing.
2021 – Horizons
Horizons was an instrumental album I made with beepbox, it was the spiritual successor to a short EP I had made earlier called Music Vol. 1, and was intended to be Vol. 2, but grew to be large and well formed enough to become its own thing.
The sound that Horizons had was influenced by bands such as Kosmischer Laufer, and was exclusively synthetic. I have very fond memories of Horizons, and I believe it to be a very great show of my ability, especially the track Pond.
2021 – Autumnal Sights
Autumnal Sights was an EP I made for Halloween of 2021. It dealt with a lot of fun themes of forest critters, and had an overarching vibe defined by motifs of fog, forests, dark, and mystery.
It was one of the first musical projects I had made which I was genuinely happy with, I like the songs In The Cold and Land of Buried Faces the most; In The Cold is about little creatures in the forest that worship a magic spiral in a clearing and draw the listener close.
Land of Buried Faces is largely thematically unrelated, but fit the style of the album in its gritty mystical lyrics and genre. I wrote it during a time in which I was very sad that a lot of my favourite teachers from secondary school were off sick, writing the lyrics based on disparate ideas that all emotionally tied back to my sadness.
2021-Present – Tones of Alucinara
Tones of Alucinara is the name of the album I have been making for my book since its conception, and I have been serialising it in EPs. ToA Vol. 1 is already out, and Vol. 2 is currently being made; once I am satisfied, at around 10-15 songs or 3-4 EPs worth of music, I will compile, rearrange, and publish the album in one piece to my Bandcamp and other streaming profiles.
The themes of the album are analogous to the ones of my book, I largely use songwriting and lyrics to express ideas of morals, trauma, general wrongness, and to express stories in musical form. I believe that Tones of Alucinara has been my most cohesive project yet, and my motivation has been unwavering due to its connections to the book I have been planning and working on for a long time.
2021-Present – My Book
My book doesn't have a title yet, but I've used various codenames such as Baby Meadow (a deific phenomena) or Alucinara (another phenomenon; the in-world term for magic). My main influences are the lord of the rings, moomin, roadside picnic, and the dark crystal.
The main themes, however, are a lot more specific to me. I use it as a sandbox to play with ideas such as existentialism, reality, morals, and simply as a place to worldbuild to my heart's content.
My art varies from artform to artform; I make songs, poems, and digital art for my book, and have been planning the plot and structure of the story since the beginning; it all began when I wrote a story for a creative writing test, and really liked what I had made.
It follows a cast of 3 characters, Blueberry the Demi-Slug, Toadstool the Minikin, and Mossenflower of the same species, all involved with Blueberry's quest to release the Petrified Child, an old lost deity concerned with the regulation of evil.
At the end of the book, They find the petrified child, and finally take a real moment to ponder the ramifications of releasing it. If they released it, so much evil would be lost, but so many people used to this life would be killed. If they kept it trapped, they would be condemning the deity to another epoch of solitude, rotting in an Alucinarium cage.
I am yet to decide wether or not they release it, making sure they do would be a bit of a cop-out as almost every character would die and closure wouldn't be achieved (as much as this ending is poignant and interesting), and leaving it condemned would mean that the entire story was for nothing; my indecision on this subject mirrors the themes of my story in an ironic way.
2023-Present - Oubliette by Eloi Eloi
My most recent project is Eloi Eloi, a Christian Goth Rock band. The genre I am going for is very new to me, but post-punk is a genre I had already listened to a fair amount and, through a college assignment, I analysed the sonic characteristics of the genre and began to write songs.
The debut album will be called Oubliette (Full Title - 'oubliette; or, a place to put people to forget about them.') and will be released on Easter 2024. The lyrics will focus mainly on trauma and faith, told through stories based on personal experiences and fictional allegorical tales.
The band will have 4 members, Mylo Hodges doing main vocals and main guitar, and more - yet unchosen - people doing the drum machine, bass, and secondary vocals.