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Fredrik Liljegren, also known as Fredrik Liliegren, is a Swedish programmer and businessman. He has worked at RedJade and co-founded the studio Digital Illusions and the demogroup The Silents.


Early life and education

Liliegren was born in Lund to Lars-Göran Liljegren and Lena Bramsbo. As a junior high and high school student in
Växjö Växjö ( ) is a city and the seat of Växjö Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden. It had 70,489 inhabitants (2019) out of a municipal population of 95,995 (2021). It is the administrative, cultural, and industrial centre of Kronoberg County ...
, he spent a lot of time creating graphics and demo games.Sjögren, Jennie. "Affärsidé: dataspel". '' Svenska Dagbladet'', 1998-09-24. p. 59 He studied computer science at Växjö University, now known as
Linnaeus University Linnaeus University (LNU) ( sv, Linnéuniversitetet) is a state university in the Swedish historical province (''landskap'') Småland, with two campuses located in Växjö and Kalmar respectively. Linnaeus University was established in 2010 b ...
, in Sweden, but never graduated.


Career

While studying at Linnaeus, in 1992 Liljegren and fellow demo scene developers Ulf Mandorff,
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, Andreas Axelsson and Markus Nystrom, members of the former
demogroup Demogroups are teams of demosceners, who make computer based audio-visual works of art known as demos. Demogroups form a subculture collectively known as the demoscene. Groups frequently consist of students, young computer enthusiasts who spend ...
The Silents—for which Liljegren acted as a spokespersonMortensen, Fredrik, "Svenskt datorspel erövrar världen". ''
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'', 1994-02-09.
—founded the computer game company DICE and developed pinball computer games for Amiga. The first game was
Pinball Dreams ''Pinball Dreams'' is a pinball simulation video game developed by Digital Illusions and originally released for the Amiga in 1992. It spawned several sequels, including ''Pinball Fantasies'' and ''Pinball Illusions''. The MS-DOS port was digit ...
, which they started developing in 1988 and sold in 1992.Bondesson, Mikael. "Han är pojken med guldbyxorna. Amerikanska EA betalar 500 miljoner för - ...spelföretag." '' Expressen'', 2004-11-16. Liljergen was a founder of Red Jade.


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Fredrik Liljegren
at MobyGames * 1969 births Demosceners Living people Lund University alumni People from Lund Swedish video game designers Video game producers {{Sweden-scientist-stub