I’m debating upping my pledge to the TINKERER level. Help me make a choice?
I have zero skills in design or anything graphical, and generally haven’t used anything fancier than Google Docs or Word to put a document together.
But I see that I’m doing enough with Blades that having resources to make new stuff would be cool.
My question is: if I get the Tinkerer package, what kind of skills and tools do I need in order to do stuff with those templates, fonts, artwork, etc.? What are the steps between “here’s one page of plain text” and “here’s the same text, but it looks cool and Blade-y?”
Similarly, *what would be the actual content I’d get*? What kind of resources, and what formats would they be in?
Many thanks :)
Ziv, I am in pretty much the same boat but figured I can learn how to fiddle and hack.
Ben Liepis You’re probably right. 🙂
I’m just kind of worried I’m going to get a bunch of specialized/dedicated file formats, and I won’t even have the tools to use them. I guess what I’m asking is, is this a package meant for seasoned/serious product-makers, or something that n00bs and casual dabblers can handle.
The way I saw it is that if I want to take a stab, I can. If it’s not my thing it’s still good because it’s more money in John’s pocket, which I assume only helps him with continuing works.
Ben Liepis Yup, I went with that in the end.
Can tinker with source materials + U’Duasha PDF + more support for John, Blades, and the funding campaign, is a great combination of good things 🙂