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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| Company type | Brand of Aquaplus |
|---|---|
| Industry | Computer games |
| Genre | Eroge & visual novels |
| Founded | Osaka, Japan (1995) |
| Headquarters | , Japan |
Area served | Japan |
Key people | Naoya Shimokawa |
| Products | |
| Website | leaf |
Titles
edit- DR2 Night Janki (1995)
- Filsnown (1995)
- Leaf Visual Novel Series (LVNS)
- White Album (1998)
- Comic Party (1999)
- Magical Antique (2000)
- Tasogare (2001)
- Abyss Boat (2002)
- Utawarerumono (2002)
- December When There Is No Angel (2003)
- Tears to Tiara (2005)
- Kusari (2005)
- To Heart 2 XRATED (2005)
- FullAni (2006)
- To Heart 2: Another Days (2008)
- Kimi ga Yobu, Megido no Oka de (2008)
- White Album 2: Introductory Chapter (2010)
- Hoshi no Ouji-kun (2011)
- White Album 2: Closing Chapter (2011)
- Tears to Tiara II: Haou no Matsuei (2013)
- Utawarerumono: Itsuwari no Kamen (2015)
Leaf amusement softs
edit- Saorin to Issho!! (1996)
- Hatsune no Naisho!! (1997)
- Inagawa de Ikou!! (2000)
- Aruru to Asobo!! (2004)
- Manaka de Ikuno!! (2009)
References
edit- ^ "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.
- ^ "Leaf Forced to Release Game Source Code". Anime News Network. March 1, 2006. Retrieved 2015-05-21.
- ^ aquaplus-sources on github.com
- ^ おしらせ
- ^ "Leaf、一部作品のソースコード公開へ - ウィキニュース".
- ^ Leafbsd Readme
- ^ xlvns on github.com
- ^ "Aquapazza: Aquaplus Dream Match" (in Japanese). Aquaplus. Retrieved December 24, 2012.
External links
edit- Leaf's official website (in Japanese)
- P/ECE's official Website (in Japanese)