Leaf (Japanese company)

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Leaf
Company typeBrand of Aquaplus
Industry Computer games
Genre Eroge & visual novels
Founded Osaka, Japan
(1995;30 years ago (1995))
Headquarters,
Japan
Area served
Japan
Key people
Naoya Shimokawa
Products
Website leaf.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 obligated to release the source code to those games under the same license. [1] [2] [3] One still requires the game data to actually play the games with the source code. [4] [5] In addition, a free software game engine, named xlvns, was developed soon after Leaf released its first three visual novels. [6] [7] 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. [8]

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Leaf amusement softs

References

  1. "弊社製品のムービー再生にxvid.orgのムービー展開ライブラリを使用していた件について。" [Announcement Concerning Our Company's Use of Xvid.org's Video Codec Library for Video Playback in Products] (in Japanese). Aquaplus. 2005-12-22. Archived from the original on 2006-11-26. Retrieved 2010-12-18.
  2. "Leaf Forced to Release Game Source Code". Anime News Network. March 1, 2006. Retrieved 2015-05-21.
  3. aquaplus-sources on github.com
  4. "おしらせ". Archived from the original on 2006-11-26. Retrieved 2008-01-19.
  5. "Leaf、一部作品のソースコード公開へ - ウィキニュース".
  6. Leafbsd Readme
  7. xlvns on github.com
  8. "Aquapazza: Aquaplus Dream Match" (in Japanese). Aquaplus . Retrieved December 24, 2012.