I recently played through a fantastic indie PC game. Perhaps you’ve heard of it. It’s called Aquaria. The whole game was put together by two people: Derek Yu (art and design) and Alec Holowka (sound and programming).
But I’m not here to tell you about Aquaria or its soundtrack. I think many of us already know just how good that soundtrack is (though I’m a little late to the game). Rather, I’d like to go much farther back in Derek Yu’s career, to his indie platform-adventure game Eternal Daughter, which he created with Jon Perry.
When Yu put this game together, he had a few wet-behind-the-ears composers help him out. This was roughly one decade ago. As things panned out, the majority of the music was written by then-sixteen-year-old David Saulesco.
I met Saulesco earlier this year at MAGFest. Fellow young-and-prodigious composer Josh Whelchel introduced him to me, citing his work on Eternal Daughter as the big claim to fame. I’d heard of the game, and dabbled with it in college, but never really caught onto the soundtrack.
That, too, changed after Saulesco released the Eternal Daughter Original Soundtrack for free via, you guessed it, Bandcamp.
After the jump, my short take on the soundtrack that will hopefully convince you to take the time to click some links and download the soundtrack. And while you’re at it, you can hit up Saulesco via Twitter (@withaknife) and beg him to do another full soundtrack! (more…)
