RingDingRick.com

[craig_yates]

Well.

RingDingRick.com started as a comic that I drew when I was bored at the Boston Regional last year. It featured one of our college students doing all kinds of interesting and impractical things. Our team (Team 121 the Rhode Warriors) loved it. And that was the end of it. It stayed on paper for six months.

Then, Tom Schindler (www.tomschindler.net) decided to buy us a domain. RingDingRick.com.

After sleeping over at another student's house and staying up until one in the morning working with dreamweaver CS, I downloaded FileZilla and uploaded our index.

People loved it. I added a new comic every week. It grew and grew, and in time, the pages started falling apart due to my constant changes and edits. So out came RingDingRick 2.0. New pages, new look, new content. I released it the day after the BAE Regional. It had a webcam, showing my computer screen whenever I was working on the website. It had new comics. Three comics released on the same day.

Now, during the weeks before Atlanta, I was coordinating something much bigger.

Merchandise.

Hats, Pens, Mousepads, T-shirts. You name it.

I made an online store, and eventually ordered eleven shirts, and a bunch of other stuff. People bought them. The charater was infuriated.
They are still available on ringdingrick.com.

We got to Atlanta. And I had something else. Buisiness cards. Postcards. Stickers. All of this stuff was handed out to all of these teams.

Hits tripled.

Then, I asked myself, What would really round out this website?

Games.

Rickster-Oids (asteroids)
Snake,
pong,
An underwater game
Rick-Tris.

All of the flash game sites at our school were blocked.

RingDingRick is now growing to be the Flash game site for our high school.

And we have new, stupid ideas all of the time.

Animated comics? This Thursday. Starring the voices of Joe Menassa (http://Joemenassa.com
Tom Schindler,
And
Andy Grady.

And so, whenever I need a conversation starter, I simply ask:

So. Have you ever heard of RingDingRick.com?