In addition to all the Official Desert Bus 2021 T-Shirt and other merch from the Desert Bus Store, we’ve got a few special promos from friends of the bus around the Desert Bus for Hope community. The creators of these promos have pledged to donate a portion of the proceeds to Child’s Play Charity!

Heroic Replicas, donors of the Buster Sword giveaway scheduled for Friday morning, have generously assembled a bundle of indie game-inspired creations, including Charon’s Obol, a Mermaid Pendant, and two Winged Strawberry decals. They have a discounted bundle where $25 of your purchase will go to Child’s Play and they’ll match with an additional $25. They’ve also got a further discounted bundle for those that have already donated (thank you!).

Pin-Ace, donors of the Pride Pin Lot giveaway scheduled for Thursday’s Zeta shift, has set up a special promo code for their online store for viewers of Desert Bus. Use the promo code DESERTBUS and, not only will you save 10% on your order, 15% of your order will be donated to Child’s Play Charity!

Finally, returning tonight during Night Watch, The Garages have posted their merch for this year’s The Garages vs. Desert Bus concert! Head over to their Bandcamp page to pick up a t-shirt, poster, digital album, or cassette, where proceeds from each sale will be donated to Child’s Play Charity.

We’re starting a giveaway for this Pokémon Shadow Box! But first, you gotta catch the description of this prize from the prize’s creator…

Prepare to be a-Mew-sed. I’m gonna Raichu a description so filled with awesome puns you won’t Bayleef it. Whether this prize comes up in Omanyte Watch, Zeta Shiftry, Dawn Gardevoir or Abra Flight, you’re going to be stunned by the Beautifly prize I have for you. Just take a Pikachu.

How Charmeleon is this? I know it’s Farfetch’d but this Scrafty trainer combined only sheets of white cardstock and LED strip lights to create this Tentacool framed artwork.

It took an Unown amount of time to create, but I’m no Fletchling. I took some time to Meditite and finally got it Rhydon.

The frame measures 247mm by 247mm, and is 31mm deep. Batteries not included unfortunately. You’ll need six AA ones. The frame has a hook to hang on the Walrein, but it’s thick enough to Butterfree-stand. I’ve included some velcro tabs if you want to affix the battery packs to the back of the frame.

It would be Onix-ceptable for you to ignore it, so don’t be a Slowpoke and place a Bidoof. Shout about it in the Chatot and let everyone know – let’s get a full on bidding Wartortle going.

Log in to or sign up for a donor account, then donate $8.98 (or multiples thereof) for a chance to win this prize! We’ll run this giveaway until 2:35pm PST.

We’d like to take a moment to thank one of our returning Prize Sponsors for this year’s Desert Bus for Hope: Ysbryd Games!

Ysbryd Games is a publisher that is looking for spirited independent game developers who hunger to create games with magic. They provide a rock-solid bridge for every step of the video game publishing journey: fundraising, polishing, and marketing. They’ve seen lots of hopeful indie devs get derailed by the realities and difficulties of video game publishing; they’ve walked the road themselves and are here to help out.

In addition to donating prizes to this year’s event, we also welcome Ysbryd’s community manager, Jacob Burgess, joining us again on Alpha Flight this year. Thank you Ysbryd for your support of Desert Bus for Hope!

Our first giveaway of today’s Alpha Flight has begun! We’re giving away a custom-painted Desert Bus-themed CyberGirl Chizue, generously donated by MomoCon and assembled and painted by a crafty trio of creators.

From the world of Lauren Cooke’s “CyberGirls” line of limited run resin model kits, Chizue (age 26) leaves the cyberpunk metropolis of future Atlanta, GA (USA) to make her way to Las Vegas (by way of Tucson, Arizona). Garbed in her stylish Desert Bus 20XX jacket, equipped with state of the art cyberlegs, and armed with her kanji-inscribed baseball bat “HomeRun!!”, this street viper is looking to make her mark in Sin City and your collectibles display. Prize package includes one custom painted assembled model figure and base along with one unassembled kit.

Log in or sign up for a donor account, then donate $8.26 (or multiples thereof) for a chance to win this prize! We’ll run this donation drive until 1:15pm PST.

Thank you so much for all of the submissions! You have no idea how hard it was to choose from all of these submissions! Every single one of you did amazingly. Well…except one of you. YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID!

And thank you especially to our wonderful winner, a kid not to be named but that is the child of N2Osferatu that created a beautifully detailed bus in Scrap Mechanic.

…STRAIGHT TO BED because we are SOOO tired!!

 

Ok ok I kid, but let’s talk about today! We had our second day of Coffee Pong, opened with our Sports Team Matt and Jordan. We then had our match, where we had a close going the whole time…

But hitting his second win for the year, Serge is now 2-0!
Can James make a comeback? Watch us again tomorrow morning to find out!

We also did our first Family Feud game, had some mimosas, talked to Dengler….

The boys got quizzed on Kingdom Hearts, except Jordan wasn’t allowed to join. He was left mostly unharmed.

And showed off the beauty of the Minecraft server!

And of course…….WE DANCED!

 

 

 

 

 

We will see you tomorrow! We look forward to continuing our game shows, our giveaways, and other wonderful nonsense!

 

Do you like Magic the Gathering? Or just incredibly beautiful art done by some amazing artists on pretty shinies?!
Then we have a great giveaway for you!

Just donate $7.99 or multiples thereof by 11:50am PST for a chance to win this awesome set of cards!

Originally released during Black History Month, Secret Lair: Black is Magic celebrates different expressions of Black identity. Each card was illustrated by a Black artist, including Ernanda Souza, Ejiwa ‘Edge’ Ebenebe, Hillary Wilson, Dani Pendergast, KNIIO, Thomas Zenteno, and Julio Reyna.

Secret Lair: International Women’s Day 2020 celebrates some of the most famous and influential female characters in the game of Magic, featuring borderless art from Mila Pesic, Livia Prima, Cynthia Sheppard, Anna Steinbauer, and Magali Villeneuve.

Celebrating aspiration, achievement, and the tenacity that connects them, this clock is based on the parachute of the 2021 Mars Rover “Perseverance”….

$10.69 or multiples thereof by 11:05am PST to get a chance to win!

If you’d like a chance at this cool game, donate $5.16 or multiples thereof by 8:30am PST!!!

Varia is a card-and-dice-based dueling game designed to provide an accessible experience right out of the box. Just pick a class, grab some dice, and start playing with a pre-constructed deck. Or, if you feel like shaking things up, you can mix and match for a customized experience.

It’s time for the yearly SHIRT GIVEAWAY!! And, as is tradition, we have an art challenge for you all!

We want you to create a 3D Bus. Out of anything you want. Blender, some other digital program that does 3D stuff, papercraft, woodworking, mashed potatoes…..WHATEVER you like! Within reason, please keep it PG.

Once you’ve finished your piece of art, please email them to us at contests@desertbus.org and have the subject line be 3D Bus. Make sure we RECEIVE the email by 11am PST!!! If it’s after that time it WILL NOT be considered.

In the body of the email also make sure to include your Desert Bus For Hope username, your chat name, or whatever else you’d like the be called out loud on stream! We look forward to seeing your creations!