Erik Johnson

ThatGameCompany has announced that the original soundtrack for its title Flower is heading to the Playstation Store this Thursday, priced at just $2.99.

The Playstation Store recently released the Heavy Rain soundtrack as well, so a possible trend forming on the expansion of game soundtracks on the PS3’s digital hub.

The soundtrack features eight tracks and over an hour worth of music and will arrive with the PSN update this Thursday, soundtrack composer Vincent Diamante shares his thoughts:

Looking back, a year-plus removed from working on Flower, it’s hard for me to remember anything but wonderful times with Sony and thatgamecompany. Then I think a bit harder and remember: the fights. Not fights amongst us developers, no. Besides, that comes part and parcel in the process of game development. Rather, the fights happened within the music. All-out brawls between themes, lines, instruments, harmonies as the music struggled to find identity when Flower was just this bud of a game.

Ostensibly, I was the one in control, penning each note in my music synthesizer as environment after environment demanded score. Not just any score, though; an ambitious score where the number of instruments present in the music ultimately dictated a different perspective on the game. From that simple directive, I codified a way of writing the music that would result in the interactive score I dreamt of.