Leaf (Japanese company)

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Leaf
Type Brand of Aquaplus
Industry Computer games
Genre Eroge & Visual novels
Founded Osaka, Japan (1995 (1995))
Headquarters Yodogawa-ku, Osaka, 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 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]

P/ECE

In addition of software publishing, Aquaplus produced P/ECE, a greyscale mobile gaming platform that allows user to download games via USB or infrared port. The specifications of the P/ECE are as follows:

  • Screen
    • Four-level grayscale FSTN LCD
    • 128 x 88 pixel resolution
  • Sound: PC-9801
  • CPU: EPSON S1C33209 24 MHz (32-bit RISC)
  • Main Memory: 256kb SRAM
  • Storage: 512kb flash RAM

P/ECE unit has preloaded 'Picket' software, which is an electronic organizer. Aquaplus offered downloadable freeware titles such as Multi's going out, Black Wings, TANK BATTLE, Ojomajomini, Inagawa de urou!!.

Titles

Leaf amusement softs

  • Saorin to Issho!! (1996)
  • Hatsune no Naisho!! (1997)
  • Inagawa de Ikou!! (2000)
  • Aruru to Asobo!! (2004)
  • Manaka de Ikuno!! (2009)

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. 

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