Daniel Wagner is the CEO and Creative Director of Monokel, an independent game studio based in Cologne. Monokel’s work spans games, film, and transmedia storytelling, earning multiple grants and recognition at international festivals. Monokel’s debut title, White Shadows, received the German Computer Game Award. Before founding Monokel, Daniel received proper training for a career in the games industry — he was a restless writer, bored academic, committed paper boy, hopeless flower salesman, budding film producer, and competent graphic designer (though not necessarily in that order).