Leaf (Japanese company)

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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.Template:Citation needed It was launched out of obscurity by its early release To Heart.Template: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.<ref name="leaf_gpl">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="ann_gpl">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>aquaplus-sources on github.com</ref> One still requires the game data to actually play the games with the source code.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In addition, a free software game engine, named xlvns, was developed soon after Leaf released its first three visual novels.<ref>Leafbsd Readme</ref><ref>xlvns on github.com</ref> 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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