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Leaf (Japanese company)

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Leaf
Company typeBrand of Aquaplus
IndustryComputer games
GenreEroge & Visual novels
FoundedOsaka, Japan
(1995; 29 years ago (1995))
Headquarters,
Japan
Area served
Japan
Key people
Naoya Shimokawa
Products
Websiteleaf.aquaplus.jp

Leaf is a Japanese visual novel studio under the publisher Aquaplus, and has offices in Yodogawa-ku, Osaka, and Tokyo. It and its competitor Key (to which it is often compared) are two of the most popular and successful dedicated visual novel studios operating today.[citation needed] It was launched out of obscurity by its early release To Heart.[citation needed] Leaf used the XviD video codec in several games: Aruru to Asobo!!, Tears to Tiara, Kusari, and ToHeart2 X Rated. Since XviD is free software, released under the GPL, Leaf was forced to release the source code to those games under the same license. One still required the game data to actually play the games with the source code.[1][2] In addition, a free software engine called xlvns was developed soon after Leaf released its first three visual novels.[3] Characters from Utawarerumono, Tears to Tiara, To Heart, and Kizuato are playable in Aquapazza: Aquaplus Dream Match, a fighting game developed by Aquaplus featuring characters from various Leaf games.[4]

Titles

Leaf amusement softs

References

  1. ^ おしらせ
  2. ^ http://ja.wikinews.org/wiki/Leaf、一部作品のソースコード公開へ
  3. ^ Leafbsd Readme
  4. ^ "Aquapazza: Aquaplus Dream Match" (in Japanese). Aquaplus. Retrieved December 24, 2012.