Erik Loyer

Erik Loyer makes games, apps, and creative tools that marry the visual language of comics to motion graphics and musical performance. He founded interactive label Opertoon to explore this territory, releasing the interracial love story Ruben & Lullaby, the touchscreen meditation Strange Rain, and the digital graphic novel Upgrade Soul, garnering IGF and IndieCade nominations, an IGN Editor’s Choice nod, and over half a million downloads. Loyer’s storytelling platforms Panoply and Stepworks have been utilized in award-winning commercial games, apps, workshops, and classrooms across the United States and Europe.