Daniel Kaplan has left Minecraft giant Mojang and moved to the maker of Goat Simulator, Coffee Stain Studios.
Kaplan was the first employee that Markus "Notch" Persson hired in 2010, about a year after Mojang was first founded.
He joins the relatively new Coffee Stain Publishing division as business developer.
“With our ambitious plans for Coffee Stain Publishing, we had to find the right people, and that’s not always easy. I’ve known Kaplan for 10 years (we even shared a bed once at Gamescom!), and I’m excited to have him join us! Kaplan is great, and shares our core game philosophies; we can’t wait to have him apply his magic on our products” said Coffee Stain's CEO Anton Westbergh in a blog post on the company's site.
Kaplan added: “I’ve been a fan of Coffee Stain’s games for years now, and moving to the team behind one of the weirdest titles in the world is an exciting moment for me. I’ve been drawn to making and thinking about games for as long as I can remember, and I’m really looking forward to work with a lot of different games at Coffee Stain. I’m very excited!”
