He won a 1998 New Media Invision Silver Award for his project
The Lair of the Marrow Monkey, which is part of the permanent collection of the
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In 1999, he won a Rockefeller Media Fellowship for his ongoing interactive narrative
Chroma which has been showcased internationally, as well as on the web. In 2009 Loyer turned his attention to his
startup company, Opertoon, specializing in the creation of "stories you can play" on mobile devices such as the
iPad. Loyer's first release through Opertoon was Ruben & Lullaby, an
Indiecade Official Selection valued by
MSNBC as a "game that plays more like an interactive graphic novel."
USA Today described Loyer's second Opertoon release and top-charting Apple iTunes Store app, "Strange Rain", as "part poetry, part artwork, part game, part interactive music experiment and part relaxation tool." ==See also==