Love-de-Lic

Love-de-lic was founded by Kenichi Nishi in 1995. Its staff included former Squaresoft employees. In 2000, the company was disbanded.

During its five-year life span, Love-de-lic developed three games: Moon: Remix RPG Adventure, UFO: A Day in the Life, and L.O.L.: Lack of Love.

Each of the three games introduced unusual, exotic gameplay concepts: Moon was an "anti-RPG", illuminating traditional RPG elements in a grotesque light, and suggesting to "gain love, not levels"; UFO was dedicated to taking pictures of invisible aliens; Lack of Love put the player in control of a tiny newborn creature who had to grow and evolve.

The underlying theme of "love", as well as other recurrent stylistic and gameplay-related elements (day/night cycle, character schedules, eccentric characters, "gibberish" speech with subtitles), were partly carried over by former Love-de-lic employees into their new projects with other companies.

Kenichi Nishi, the author of Moon and Lack of Love, later designed Chibi-Robo!, Giftpia, and Captain★Rainbow for Skip. These games can be considered spiritual sequels to Moon.

Taro Kudo, the creator of UFO, developed Endnesia, which also incorporated many classic Moon elements, with his new company, VANPOOL.

Another Love-de-lic employee, Yoshiro Kimura, went on to found Punchline. Their tribute to Moon was the "kissing adventure" Chulip.