$5.03 x N until 9:55am for the Board Game Classics Lot!!
It’s a Donation Drive blitz here at Desert Bus 9! Hot on the heels of a Double Donation drive, we’ve got another underway, this time for the incredible Board Game Classics Lot — an amazing prize that including an all-star lineup of games! (See above!)
Get donations in for $5.03 (or multiples thereof) until 9:55am for a chance to win!
Thank you to PubNub for providing us with the ability to maintain our constantly live donation total.
PubNub was founded in 2009 in San Francisco, CA as a Data Stream Network for software developers to build realtime applications. They succeeded in making real-time message systems that allow for near instant communication for web and mobile apps. Today, PubNub powers thousands of realtime apps around the world, from innovative start-ups to globally recognized brands. They manage over 3 million realtime messages per second and 100 million devices per month. We are very thankful to PubNub for their continued support of Desert Bus.
Michael Stevens will be calling into Desert Bus at 11:30am PST on Monday, November 16th.
Michael Stevens is the creator of the Youtube brand Vsauce where on Vsauce1 he hosts a video series that seeks answers to big, unexplored questions like, “Why Are Things Creepy?” and “What If You Were Born In Space?”. His channel was the largest growing channel in September 2012 and now has over 9.5 million subscribers.
Have a question for Michael? Leave it in the comments below!
$6.12 x N for the Hero Vault Wenge until 9:06am Pacific
$9.18 x M for a DB9 T-Shirt until 9:15am Pacific
We’re running TWO simultaneous Donation Drives!
Get in now!! They’re closing soon!! Remember to donate multiples of $6.12 to be entered to win the Hero Vault, or multiples of $9.18 to be entered to win a DB9 T-Shirt!
Desert Bus: The Game Contest Winners!!
Congrats to Revolver Rossalot for his winning entry in the Desert Bus Board Game contest! Rossalot, enjoy your new Portable Dance Party prize!!
And the honourable mentions…
And the rest of our amazing entries!
LeVar Burton will be calling into Desert Bus at 8:00am PST on Monday, November 16th.
LeVar Burton is an award winning actor, director, producer, and speaker. Known for his roles as Chief Engineer Geordi La Forge in the iconic “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and as host of Reading Rainbow from 1983-2009, he has received 12 Emmy Awards, a Grammy, and five NAACP awards.
Through his digital educational company, RRKidz, Burton turned Reading Rainbow into a digital reading service, and thanks to over 105,000 Kickstarter backers, he has been able to bring it online as SKYBRARY. By bringing Reading Rainbow to the web, he has made it accessible to 83% of American households, and it will be accessible for teachers and students beginning in January 2016.
Have a question for LeVar? Leave it in the comments below!
As dawn approaches, three of our silent auction lots are coming to a close. Remember, in addition to the live auctions and giveaways we run on air, we also have silent auctions running around the clock here on desertbus.org. Here’s the Silent Auctions that are ending very soon (click the thumbnail to hop directly to the auction)…
While your on our Silent Auctions page, be sure to check out the other auctions we have coming up throughout the rest of the run. And, as always, a special thanks to all our crafters and donators whom have contributed these great items for this year’s auctions and giveaways!
Time for another donation drive! Donate $6.00 (or multiples thereof) for a chance to win this Mario lot, featuring Mario-themed crafts and goodies. We’ll run this donation drive until 6:15 AM PST.
Samurai Punk is a small Melbourne, Australia based independent game developer focused on making games with love and care for the people that want to play them. Formed in 2013 they are most known from their extremely popular PC title Screencheat.
Screencheat is a split-screen first person shooter where everyone is invisible and you have to “Screencheat” in order to combat your opponents. With a mixture of local and online play and voice work from Desert Bus’ very own Graham Stark and Alex Steacy, Screencheat and Samurai Punk have become fixtures of the Penny Arcade Expo indie scene.
We’re extremely pleased and grateful to once again have Samurai Punk return as a sponsor for Desert Bus this year! Thank you for your support!
Desert Bus is so much fun as a video game, so let’s consider what Desert Bus would be like as a board game. Beej’s first art challenge of his run is to design your rendition of the box art for a Desert Bus (or Desert Bus for Hope, because, again, the game by itself is so much fun) board game. Up for grabs is a Portable Dance Party prize, so you can always party wherever you travel.
Kinda like this. Sort of.
Send your submissions to contests@desertbus.org with “Board Game Box Art” in the subject line. We’ll accept submissions until 5:48 AM PST. Be sure to include with your submission the name or handle you’d like us to use for you on air should your entry win.