We wanted to thank our wonderful sponsor World of Darkness for contributing some amazing prizes for our run this year!
World of Darkness legacy consists of:
- Nearly 1,000 publications of the tabletop RPG series, with 10M+ units sold in 25+ countries and 9 languages
- Several popular video games with multi-million+ copies sold, including cult-classic Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, celebrated as one of the top 25 best RPGs ever made
- Various licensed extensions over the years such as novels, comics, art books, board games and more
- Endless cycle of global immersive entertainment (LARP) events hosted worldwide
- Trend-setting Kickstarter successes, earning millions of dollars to fund original and reprinted editions of tabletop RPG publications and board games
- Feature-length documentary distributed worldwide in 2018
First off, thank you all so much for your awesome entries!!! We got so many impressive, funny, and sometimes horrifying pieces of art, and we are happy to announce our winner!!!
But first, our honorable mentions:
Art by Scott1e
Art by Armiyana
Art By Steph H
And now, our winner!!!!! Made by Bramante
Congratulations, Bramante!! You have won a Desert Bus 2021 shirt, as well as a golden DBloon!!!
This set of twenty-five Magic: the Gathering themed coasters was custom designed and made just for Desert Bus.
They are made from quality three-ply, 4mm baltic birch plywood and laser cut into 4″ circles.
Precision engraved with a custom-built CNC mill, stained by hand, and waterproofed with polyurethane, these coasters are as durable as they are aesthetic.
In this set you not only get two variations of the five basic mana symbols,(one in color and one in golden mahogany) but also the ten guild symbols of the plane of Ravnica and the five clans of Tarkir(also in golden mahogany).
Sign up for or log in to your Donor Account, then donate $6.25 (or multiples thereof) for a chance to win this prize. We’ll run this giveaway until 5:40am PST.
A giant thank you to one of our generous prize sponsors, Roxley Games Laboratory!
Roxley Games specializes in games that are innovative, well-developed, and highly-polished. At Roxley, they pour their heart and soul into every game they have the opportunity to work on. Some board games you might have played recently that they’ve published include Dice Throne, Santorini, Brass: Lancashire, and Gorilla Marketing.
Thank you Roxley Game Laboratory for your support of this year’s Desert Bus for Hope!
As you explore the Zone, a voice bellows from the shadows. “You… why are you here?” It’s not about how you face your fears, it’s how you survive them.
Chernobylite is a science-fiction survival horror experience, mixing free exploration with RPG elements, where the choices you make matter. Every day brings new threats, be it low supplies, an unexpected military patrol, or the supernatural creatures that lurk in the shadows. Find resources, build your team of companions, and you might survive to reveal the area’s secrets.
This lot features a collectors edition of Chernobylite, including a copy of the game and additional loot, including an artbook, t-shirt, gas mask, and more. This is an exclusive edition of the game that is no longer available!
Sign up for or log in to your Donor Account, then donate $7.86 (or multiples thereof) for a chance to win this prize. We’ll run this giveaway until 3:45am PST.
We at Zeta Shift have been hard at work trying to figure out who, indeed, is that Animorphs. Sometimes it’s a squid. Sometimes a bee. Sometimes a horrific nightmare of a pre-teen turning into a mouse. But for this Animorphs, rather than Marco, Cassie, or Jake, it is ZETA. Your art challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to create art of a member of Zeta shift ‘shifting’ into their Animorph form. Does Carrie turn into a cat? Is Beej a secret tardigrade? Is Heather a hummingbird? It’s all up to you!
This art contest will run until 5am PST. Please submit your entry in the form of .jpg, .gif, or .png to contest@desertbus.org, with the subject line “Animorph Crossing“. Please include which name you would like to be referred to on screen if you win!!!
But what do you win, you ask? You will win a Desert Bus 2021 t-shirt in the size of your choosing by Fangamer, as well as this year’s shiny gold DBloon!!
Our journey through the stars continues, even though today we were beset by an Invasion of the Q. As if the Chat Continuum weren’t enough lovable chaos! The crew has begun to act… oddly.
Despite these irregularities, we were able to raise the Grand Nagus on Comms to introduce our new silent auctions.
In true Starfleet fashion, we chose to maintain our neutrality in the Kindness War.
We had a very artistically fulfilling evening, beginning with Lt. Cori reciting her favorite poem!
The crew also rejoiced when we received a new Holodeck program from The Garages, which we immediately activated to view their performance. The Chat Continuum expressed their approval of this performance by helping The Garages hit #1 on Bandcamp!
We’re positively spoiled for good music on this ship. Max played their fiddle for us again – and broke the mic again. Their power is over 9000!
Ensign Ben also provided us with a broad artistic review of Thwomps over Time. It was a most edifying lecture.
We also found out where our lost crewmate, the King of Spades, has gone through an art contest! It seems he’s been spotted all over the galaxy, so we assembled a document of notable sightings.
And then this happened.
We made slimes and then threw them at things. Like Ian’s face! For the record, the crew of the USS Tucson is 99.9% certain that no changelings were harmed in the yeeting of these slimes.
We’ll see where our adventures take us tomorrow!
We hoped this art contest would reveal the King of Spades’ location so we could track him down and find him but… at this rate, we think he’s having so much fun that we’ll just leave him alone. He’ll come back when he’s ready. If he’s ready?
Anyway, here are the results of tonight’s Night Watch Art Contest!
Winner: Briar
Well, we’re horrified now. Thanks Briar and we hope you enjoy the shirt you won at the cost of our collective sense of safety!
Honorable Mentions
The Honorable Mentions are plentiful (and even include a song), since you all are so clever and talented! Thanks to everyone who sent an entry in for this contest. We loved all your King of Spades art and all the forms it took!
Honorable Mention: Rosie
Click here for Song by Rosie about the King of Spades
Honorable Mention: Jaqspur
Honorable Mention: Erika Cheshire — “He’s putting together a crew of his people to wage war on the Tuscon!”
Honorable Mention: quietcat
Honorable Mention: toxicgraveyards
Honorable Mention: Maddie C
Honorable Mention: Joel R. Fry – “he’s drinking mimosas of course!”
Honorable Mention: Tower Slayer
Honorable Mention: Voren_Chalco
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