Desert Bus 2017 is only three weeks away!

Everybody get excited! Everybody get hyped! Most importantly, everybody get your donor accounts made/updated because there’s only three weeks until the madness begins on November 17th!  Don’t forget to follow our twitter feed, facebook feed and bookmark our twitch channel.  We’ll see you all very soon!

Photo Credit: Andrew Ferguson

Prize Preview #1
Shift Banner Cat Cube

Celebrate a great Desert Bus tradition year round with this one-of-a-kind cat bed made of soft fleece and plush foam. The sides are decorated with each of the four shift banners, allowing you (or your cat) to express yourself as you see fit. Match the top side to your favorite shift, or introduce mandatory stretch breaks into your cat’s schedule as you rotate the cube every 6 hours in coordination with the shift changes! However you choose to display it, your cat will have a cozy place to sleep and your house will have a functional reminder of the joy that is Desert Bus.

This Prize has been donated to us by Lauren Schmidt.  Lauren has been sewing since she was 7 and now focuses mostly on cosplay and cat-based crafts. Her two cats are deeply offended every time she makes a bed that they can’t sleep in, despite the fact that they already have cubes made specifically for them. This is her 5th year contributing to the Craft-Along.  Thank you, Lauren!

Desert Bus 2017

Holy bus! It’s that time of year again!

Desert Bus 2017 will be starting Friday, November 17th at 10:00am (PST)

Aaaannd, for those of you not in our time zone, that’s…
1:00pm (EST), 6:00pm (GMT), 5:00am (AEDT)

Mark your calendars!
Bookmark our twitch channel!
Follow us on Twitter!

Do you paint? Sew? Use found objects to create adorable sculptures of pets from video games? Good, because it’s that time of year again.  On June 15th submissions for the Desert Bus 2017 Craft-Along will officially be open.  You will have until June 30th to get your submissions in, so that we can get back to you with enough time to complete your crafts.  We endeavor to provide everyone with a response to your submission by July 15th. The deadline for receipt of finished crafts will be September 30th.

If you are new to the Craft-Along, and have a great idea for a craft for DB, the process is simple just follow the link for Craft-Along submissions (http://craftalong.desertbus.org/), and fill in the form.  We will need contact information, a description of the craft, and a few other pieces of info.  If you are a returning crafter, well that’s old news; however, this year we will only be taking one submission per crafter.  As this year we have a new Prize Mistress, and Craft-Along Coordinator, we are reducing the total number of prizes, both in terms of awesome crafts, and in terms of those donated by our amazing sponsors.   This gives us a chance to learn the ropes, and give each of you and your projects more attention.

The Desert Bus For Hope Craft-Along community is full of incredibly kind and gifted people who give so much of themselves, and for that we are eternally grateful.  Its people like you who make Desert Bus what it is, a positive gathering of people from across the world to help kids be kids.

You folks rock.

DBX Game Jam – The Games

This year during DBX some of our community got together to form the Desert Bus for Hope 10 Game Jam which resulted in 11 new games. If you’re missing Desert Bus a little bit, here’s a chance to experience Desert Bus in a whole new way. Thanks to everyone who shared their creations with us.

Attack of The Zeta Meat by Spluuga
DB Date 100 AB: After returning from New Las Vegas on Mars to Lunar orbit the bus was attacked by the Zeta Meat. The Zeta Meat incident resulted in sentient meat species that took over the earth after humans colonized space.

Bushmup! by Redslash12
Don’t crash the bus while dodging memes!

Desert Bus 10×10 by Famout
A nostalgia trip looking back on ten years of DBfH.

Desert Bus 100 by caxtnova
Move a bus around in a canyon trying to stay upright while dodging alien attacks and collecting candy.

Desert Bus for Game Boy by ekimekim
A top-down Game Boy port of Desert Bus.

Desert Bus for Hope Manager by BioBuster0
Help manage the Desert Bus for Hope Marathon! Drag and drop your favourite bussers to their stations to make sure it all doesn’t go bus up!

Desert Bus of Hope by MowDownJoe
Rescue survivors and keep hope alive, because your bus lives and runs off of it.

Desert Bus Text Adventure by couldntpickausername
Desert Bus for Hope in text adventure form!

Desert Bus Vegas 100 by Aggie Game Jammers
Welcome to the Desert Bus Vegas 100, a secret race for only the most dedicated Desert Bus drivers. Unfortunately, it seems like you’re the only one who made it. Don’t read too much into that.

Not Desert Bus by Jonas Mumm
Find your way from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada. On foot.

Trench by Gee It Some Laldy
Your only goal is to survive as long as possible in impossible conditions.

THANK YOU.

As of the end of bussing we had raised an astounding $693,880.29.

That is more money than most of us can comprehend and will go towards improving the lives of countless children all over the world.

From the bottom of our hearts, thank you.

That’s all for us here at Desert Bus for Hope. We have bussed, danced, auctioned, cheered, laughed and BOY HAVE WE CRIED. We did more than we ever thought we could this week. We raised more than any previous Desert Bus. We raised over $690,000.00

We are off to go sleep somewhere. We’ll see you on the other side of the road. Much love from everyone here at Desert Bus for Hope HQ.

Good Night Everyone!

We beat Desert Bus 9’s donation total. Thank you.

Wyrmwood Gaming makes some of the best dang tabletop accessories I have ever seen. These are special edition Temple of the Lava Bears themed pieces that we are doing as a Donation Drive.

Any donations of $5.01 or multiples thereof until 11:00 PM PST will enter you for a chance to win!

This is our LAST donation drive!

Hey have you ever thought you wanted a PHYSICAL version of Desert Bus?! How about one in the form of a board game?!

This Desert Bus Board Game contains around 1600 pieces and offers 8 hours of entertainment (per person!)

This will be a donation drive where any donations of $5.46 or multiples thereof until 10:15 PM PST will enter you for a chance to win!