I read it but knew early that I wouldn't be emailing vs seeing what existing users/admins/designers in this thread think. Especially once I saw there is no real layered editable template just a static label layer to work with.Teksonik wrote:fmr wrote: "So please, if you're embarking on a new skin project and you hope to earn a license for it, contact us early and show us some previews of your work; maybe a mockup or partial mockup of the full GUI. Then we can let you know early on whether we think you're going in a direction with it that we'll be interested in sharing, and help guide you towards a look and feel that we can both be proud to share here."
End users/designers should want to be innovative in a group setting where instead of a designer/creator working towards a final result in a closed loop it's a group so you see everyone's feedback. Designers also tend to get influenced by others so this may spark some creativity in them if they see what others are doing/the feedback they get... I also don't think Mike is going to have time to address all the design stuff in about a month once you guys have xx designers ripping this template we're creating apart in photoshop and working right away - vs fussing with the current template which has a lot of limitations and will drive designers crazy not having full control of the labels (probably another reason you're not recruiting many atm - redoing those labels so that they are editable for future skinners was a good chunk of my day/night. So consider this a community driven WIP for a template, not a final skin).