Bellevue, Washington’s own 5th Cell, the lauded creators of Scribblenauts and Drawn to Life, pride themselves on two things: a reputation for innovative gameplay mechanics, and protagonists with superpowers we couldn’t be trusted to use properly. This year, they’ve floored us all by donating an iPad 2 with Scribblenauts Remix preloaded on it. If you asked us to pick between this and Maxwell’s magic notebook that can create anything… well, now that I type that out, I guess I could make an iPad with Maxwell’s notebook, but that seems like cheating.
Dragon Chow Dice Bags produce awesome dice bags with a flat bottom to ensure your bag will not tip over (unless your DM table has a milk crate holding up one side like ours). If you were hoping these might be bags full of something to feed that dragon, you’re out of luck; you’re the one who tastes good with ketchup. Dragon Chow has graciously donated a very special lot of their amazing dice bags to Desert Bus; each one is hand crafted and made with special, limited edition Desert Bus for Hope fabric! D20s stored in these bags are guaranteed to roll 20s roughly five percent of the time!
If you’re not lucky enough to get one a limited edition Desert Bus bag, there are still plenty available at www.dragonchow.com.
I’ve been instructed to refrain from any Muppet Show jokes because the children we’re trying to help are too young to laugh at them. HogRocket is an independent game developer from England created by former members of Bizarre Creations (who sponsored Desert Bus in years past). They’ve sent us a bunch of download codes of their inaugural game. Tiny Invaders (in which alien germs try to take over the world through infection).
It’s only the beginning for HogRocket, and you can read more about them at their blog at www.hogrocket.com.
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PIGS IN SPACE!
[Kool, see me in my office please – Kathleen]
We were bowled over by the number of entries to the MLP Desert Bus contest (and by ‘we’, I mean “me struggling to keep up”). There was a lot of talent flying around, but in the end, we chose WulverMang by Caitlyn!
And here’s all the other fantastic entries! It turns our Friendship IS Magic! It’s so magic, we can’t fit all the ponies in one post! More in the next post!
We just reached $25,000, and we haven’t even been going for eight hours! We only got one milestone pick for this one, so they get this page all for themselves.If you want to send in a milestone pic, send it to Milestone@Desertbus.org!
We solicited some pictures of fanart with our friends James and Daniel from our buddies on PATV’s Extra Credits riding the Desert Bus. There were some great entries, but we picked this won from Audra!
Congratulations! She’s won the nifty L4D Health Pack iPad slipcase! Here are the other great entries!
We’ve reached $20,000 within only a few hours of starting, even with the technical glitches! That’s nearly the amount we raised in the first year, and that took days! We’re definitely excited!
