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Leaf
Company typeBrand of Aquaplus
IndustryComputer games
GenreEroge & visual novels
FoundedOsaka, Japan
(1995; 29 years ago (1995))
HeadquartersYodogawa-ku, Osaka, Japan
Area servedJapan
Key peopleNaoya 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. It was launched out of obscurity by its early release To Heart. 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. One still requires the game data to actually play the games with the source code. In addition, a free software game engine, named xlvns, was developed soon after Leaf released its first three visual novels. 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.

Titles

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
  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.

External links

Animated co-productions of Aquaplus
OVAs
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