Daniel Stahl is an American

United States

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 game designer best known for creating German-style board game

German-style board game

German-style board games, frequently referred to in gaming circles as Euro Games or Euro-style, are a broad class of tabletop games that generally have simple rules, short to medium playing times, indirect player interaction and abstract physical components...

s. In 2002, his game Pirate's Cove

Pirate's Cove

Pirate's Cove is a board game designed by Paul Randles and Daniel Stahl, and published in Europe in 2002 by Amigo Spiele and in the United States in 2003 by Days of Wonder...

(with Paul Randles

Paul Randles

Paul Joseph Randles was an American game designer who designed German-style board games. His games Pirate's Cove and Key Largo were published first in Europe and then in the United States...

) was published by Amigo Spiele

Amigo Spiele

Amigo Spiele is a German board and card game publisher. Many of their games have won Spiel des Jahres awards, and many have been published in English by Rio Grande Games.- Notable games :* Bohnanza* 6 Nimmt!/Take 6!* Café International...

 in Europe

Europe

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 (under the name Piratenbucht) and then in the United States by Days of Wonder

Days of Wonder

Days of Wonder is a board game publisher based in the United States and France. Founded in 2002, Days of Wonder distributes its games to 25 countries. It specialises in German-style board games and have branched out to include some online games. Days of Wonder has published games in English,...

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A former member of the ImagiNation Network

ImagiNation Network

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, He became a webmaster

Webmaster

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 in 1994 and later created Alphastrike.com, a BattleTech

BattleTech

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 trading card game fansite

Fansite

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. He was also an online producer

Online producer

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 at Wizards of the Coast

Wizards of the Coast

Wizards of the Coast is an American publisher of games, primarily based on fantasy and science fiction themes, and formerly an operator of retail stores for games...

 during the Hasbro

Hasbro

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 acquisition where he managed development for the Star Wars: TCG, and MagicTheGathering.com websites.

He was a member of the Xbox 360

Xbox 360

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 and Zune

Zune

Zune is a digital media brand owned by Microsoft which includes a line of portable media players, a digital media player software for Windows machines, a music subscription service known as a 'Zune Music Pass', music and video streaming for the Xbox 360 via the Zune Software, music, TV and movie...

 launch teams while working at Microsoft

Microsoft

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 and later went on to work for Cryptic Studios

Cryptic Studios

Cryptic Studios, a wholly owned Perfect World subsidiary, is a small American massively multiplayer online role-playing game developer headquartered in Los Gatos, California.-History:...

 where he is a game producer

Game producer

A video game producer is the person in charge of overseeing development of a video game.The earliest documented use of the term producer in games was by Trip Hawkins, who established the position when he founded Electronic Arts in 1982...

 on Champions Online

Champions Online

Champions Online is a free-to-play superhero-themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game by former City of Heroes/Villains developer Cryptic Studios based on the Champions license. The game's rules and setting are loosely based on the HERO System ruleset...

 and Star Trek Online

Star Trek Online

Star Trek Online, often abbreviated as STO, is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Cryptic Studios based on the popular Star Trek series created by Gene Roddenberry. The game is set in the 25th century, 30 years after the events of Star Trek Nemesis...

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On July 1, 2010, the current Executive Producer, Craig Zinkiviech, for Star Trek Online announced he would be leaving Cryptic/STO. At this point Daniel Stahl became the executive producer for STO.

In September 2011, it was announced on the Star Trek Online website that he would be leaving Cryptic Studios and in an interview with Trek Radio, he revealed is taking a position at Zynga

Zynga

Zynga is a social network game developer located in San Francisco, United States. The company develops browser-based games that work both stand-alone and as application widgets on social networking websites such as Facebook and MySpace....