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Freya Holmér | |||||||
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| Born | 1992 (age 31–32) | ||||||
| Citizenship | Stockholm, Sweden | ||||||
| Occupation(s) | Indie game developer and creator | ||||||
| Notable work | Shapes and Shader Forge | ||||||
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| Years active | 2014-present | ||||||
| Followers | 26,200 | ||||||
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| Subscribers | 254 thousand[1] | ||||||
| Total views | 10 million[1] | ||||||
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Last updated: 25 July 2024 | |||||||
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Freya Holmér (born 4 April 1992), also known by the pseudonym Acegikmo, is a YouTuber, Twitch streamer, and indie game developer from Stockholm, Sweden. She is best known for her shader and graphics libraries, Shader Forge, and Shapes, as well as her indie game development on Budget Cuts. She has been involved in talks at industry events and has mentoring programs for game developers.
Development tools
[edit]She is the creator of the free and open source developer tool Shader Forge, which was one of the largest plugins for the Unity game engine, attaining over 2.6 thousand stars on GitHub. Shader Forge was a tool for editing and creating shaders in the Unity game engine. On April 30, 2018, Shader Forge was made free and open-source software. It was one of the earliest shader tools, launched in 2013, before Unity added their own. Holmér was approached by Unity about an acquisition, but the deal fell through because "[their] goals... weren't aligned".[2] The tool was originally sold for $90 as a plugin on the Unity asset store.
Holmér created and actively develops and maintains Shapes, a real-time vector graphics library.[3] Shapes provides accessible tooling to create 2 and 3-dimensional shapes in the Unity game engine. Shapes was listed in Unity’s Top Paid Assets list on the Unity Assets Store, holding the fourth place on the list for several months in 2023.[4]
Career
[edit]She is the co-founder of the indie game organization Neat Corporation, creator of the VR stealth game Budget Cuts.[5]
Holmér is an advocate for diversity and inclusion in the game industry and has spoken about the need for more women and under-represented groups to work in game development. Additionally, Holmér has worked on improving the accessibility of mathematics information by creating visualizations and videos about topics such as splines, beziers, and other complex concepts.[6]
Holmér also live streams on Twitch (service) and uploads educational mathematics and game development-based video essays on her YouTube channel.[7]
Holmér taught for a brief time at FutureGames, her alma matter in courses on programming and Unity game development. During her time there, she found a gap in accessible tools and resources for video game developers in asset shading.
Biography/Personal life
[edit]Holmér attended FutureGames beginning in 2010 studying Game Design.[8]
During her final year at FutureGames, Holmér held an internship at Avalanche Studios Group.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "About Freya Holmér". YouTube.
- ^ Chan, Stephanie (2018-04-30). "Shader Forge is now open-source and free to all developers". Venturebeat. Archived from the original on 2023-10-02. Retrieved 2024-06-05.
- ^ Unity Asset Store Review - Add Vector Graphics to your game with Shapes, 2024-07-25
- ^ "Discover Unity's Top Paid Assets on the Asset Store". web.archive.org. 2023-03-30. Archived from the original on 2023-03-30. Retrieved 2024-07-25.
- ^ Hayden, Scott (2018-06-13). "'Budget Cuts' Release Date Confirmed for Tomorrow After Previous Delay". Roadtovr. Archived from the original on 2024-05-24. Retrieved 2024-06-04.
- ^ "Visualizing Math with Freya Holmér". DEV Community. Archived from the original on 2024-01-10. Retrieved 2024-07-25.
- ^ Mark LaCroix, Stephen McGregor (2018-10-30). "Self-education, et al. (with Freya Holmer)". Nice Games Club (Podcast). Retrieved 2024-06-04.
- ^ "Freya Holmér on Indie and Accelerated Learning" (Press release). FutureGames. Archived from the original on 2024-07-25. Retrieved 2024-06-04.
- ^ Bourguignon, Tim. "DevJourney Podcast". DevJourney Podcast. Archived from the original on 2024-04-14. Retrieved 2024-07-25.