You could say that OFK isn’t a real band, but that wouldn’t exactly be true. Its members — Itsumi, Jey, Luca, Carter, and Debug — are digital, fictional characters that put out real music. Songs like “Follow/Unfollow,” “Fool’s Gold,” and “Footsteps” have been published by Sony Music Masterworks and released on Spotify and other music streaming platforms. Unlike Hatsune Miku or League of Legends’ K/DA, however, OFK aren’t megastars — at least, not yet. They’re just a group of friends starting to make music together.
We Are OFK is the group’s interactive biopic spread across five hourlong episodes. Each of these episodes is tied to OFK’s five songs on their debut EP, covering the friends’ and band’s growth on their way to the big release.
Developer Team OFK’s creative director, Teddy Dief, wanted to position OFK separate from virtual megastars like K/DA, and focus instead on a much smaller, more personable story. We Are OFK’s first two episodes were released on Aug. 18 — each subsequent episode was released weekly from there.
The game’s dreamy, pastel world opens with Itsumi Saito and Luca Le Fae, two co-workers making a fashion mech video game for a huge corporate studio. They’re overworked and underpaid, their creative visions undervalued in an environment where all decisions come from the top. Itsumi’s world is consumed by heartbreak and Luca Le Fae is doing a lot of breaking hearts when they’re joined by an old friend and music producer, Jey Zhang. Carter Flores eventually joins the band for visuals and FX, pulling in their holographic AI cat Debug for vocals.
It’s a very LA world, or rather, it represents an outsider’s idea of LA. It’s all neon lights, creamy colors, and dreamy people with dreamy outfits. These
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