http://www.dannyburbol.com I make comicbooks and video games. :) Sun, 13 Mar 2011 07:55:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   So.... I've been playing a lot of Doumbek lately and in the process, I've been collecting a lot of rhythms from around the web. I'm posting them here so I have them when I'm at a friend's house or something. But First, Credits: Much of what you're about to ... http://www.dannyburbol.com/2011/03/doumbek-rhythms/ I know you're asking yourself: "what the heck is siterightdesign.com?". Well, I officially closed my web design business after nearly 2 years of non-use. In fact, the web domain has already expired! Oops! :) Basically, I found employment and let all my customers go about 2 years ago. ... http://www.dannyburbol.com/2010/06/fyi-siterightdesign-com-is-closed/ Thank goodness for 3-day weekends!  I finally wrapped up the MircoRPG game for final release! :) Click Image or Click Here to play! Final additions include: tutorial bubbles that teach you how to use the town's healing water and the doctor's house. game save and ... http://www.dannyburbol.com/2010/02/mircorpg-the-red-orc-adventure-final-release/ After doing a random AS3 search for some code that might let me outline text clean/easily, I stumbled on this post by Tom Carden.  It's a short and sweet little post with some sample code.  However, what caught my eye was his clone function (note, that's a screenshot to the ... http://www.dannyburbol.com/2010/01/as3-for-each-property/ First off, the image to the right is NOT playable yet.  That said, on to the post... Over the holidays I made a little game I called MicroRPG (here's the original post, and original playable game page). It's kind of a spoof on RPGs.  You start in a town and ... http://www.dannyburbol.com/2010/01/microrpg-additions/ So I was watching ted.com and I stumbled onto a design talk titled: Stefan Sagmeister: The power of time off.  The talk focused on how every seven years he closes his design studio and forces everyone to take a year-long sabbatical. The talk was very interesting (I won't get into ... http://www.dannyburbol.com/2010/01/stumbling-on-happiness/   Great Grandma is no longer with us.  I made this comic over a year ago, but never posted it.  My sister said it best. Maria Albani would have been 93 this month. I can't imagine everything that she saw in her life, in America and in Sicily. She was one of ... http://www.dannyburbol.com/2010/01/great-grandma/   Comics Experimental ... http://www.dannyburbol.com/2010/01/a-decade-of-artwork/   I got inspired over Thanksgiving and made this game.  Then I worked on it some more over Christmas.  It was loads of fun to make so I thought I'd share :)  Click on the image to actually go to the page that has the game on it. I just think it's funny ... http://www.dannyburbol.com/2010/01/flash-game-mircorpg-the-red-orc-adventure/ I got together with some friends and got a private watercolor lesson.  It's pretty surprising to me because we've been doing chinese brush painting for so long.  Chinese brush and ink *does* have colors that are much like watercolors.  (the "ink" in brush and ink is the black and grays... ... http://www.dannyburbol.com/2009/12/watercolor-my-first-real-lesson/