Leaf (company)

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 the most popular and successful dedicated visual novel studios operating today.Fact|date=August 2008 It was launched out of obscurity by its early release "ToHeart".Fact|date=August 2008 Leaf used the XviD video codec in several games: Aruru to Asobo!!, Tears to Tiara, Kusari, and ToHeart2 XRATED. 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. [ [http://leaf.aquaplus.co.jp/product/xvid.html おしらせ ] ] [http://ja.wikinews.org/wiki/Leaf、一部作品のソースコード公開へ] In addition, a free software engine called xlvns was developed soon after Leaf released its first three visual novels. [ [http://web.archive.org/web/20031208181123/http://leafbsd.denpa.org/ Leafbsd Readme ] ]

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 unit has 256KB SRAM and RAM 512KB flash memory.

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

*DR2 Night Janki (1995)
*Filsnown (1995)
*Leaf Visual Novel Series (LVNS)
**Shizuku (1996)
**Kizuato (1996)
**ToHeart (1997)
*White Album (1998)
*Comic Party (1999)
*Magical Antique (2000)
*Tasogare (2001)
*Utawarerumono (2002)
*Routes (2003)
*December When There Is No Angel (2003)
*Aruru to Asobo!! (2004)
*Tears to Tiara (2005)
*Kusari (2005)
*ToHeart2 XRATED (2005)
*FullAni (2006)
* (2008)

References

External links

* [http://leaf.aquaplus.co.jp/ Leaf's official website] jp icon
* [http://www.piece-me.com/ P/ECE's official Website] jp icon