We here at Desert Bus would like to thank one of our returning sponsors for this year: Ludum Darlings!
Previously a prize sponsor, now an organizing sponsor, Ludum Darlings is a multi-talented entity, dabbling in game design, photography, and the occasional concept website design.
Thank you, Ludum Darlings, for your continued support of Desert Bus for Hope!
Luxie is part of a grand tradition, stretching back to ancient times: once a child has reached the age they wish to go off adventuring, a grandparent figure will make them a plush chocobo to go with them, protecting them from harm and keeping them company until they return. They’re very good listeners, these chocobos, lending an ear in exchange for head scritches and hugs. This one in particular has chosen Luxie as their name, and would love to accompany an adventurer of any age!
Sitting at 11 inches tall and 7 inches wide, made of acrylic yarn and polyfil, they are squeezably soft and just poseable enough for a little expression.
Donate $7.14, or multiples thereof ($14.28, $21.56, etc.) until 8PM PST to be in with a chance of wining!
Earlier in today’s Alpha Flight shift, we challenged the community to come up with their best Desert Bus Food Truck menu. Here’s the winning entry, submitted by Darth_Wooper:
Dessert Bus for Hope
FoodRaising for the kids!
(50% of the proceeds of every sale will be donated to Child’s Play Charity)
Today’s Menu:
– Dawnfogatto
Two scoops of vanilla or dulce de leche (caramel) ice cream in a cup, drizzled with a shot of freshly brewed espresso.
– Alpha Fried Ice Cream
One very large scoop of vanilla ice cream fried in a light batter, then drizzled with your choice of chocolate, caramel, or 100% pure Canadian maple syrup.
– Night Waffle Cone
Two scoops of any available flavor of ice cream (see today’s list on the other side of the window), with up to three toppings and a side of utter madness.
– ZetaBites
You thought nachos were always a savory dish? Our fresh-toasted-daily tortilla chips are sprinkled with cinnamon sugar then topped with vanilla ice cream, hot fudge and/or caramel, chopped maraschino cherries, and whipped cream.
– Omega Split
Banana split with EIGHT scoops of ice cream (any flavor) (one scoop for each day of the run), chopped nuts, rainbow sprinkles, and the bittersweet syrup of another year of bussing behind us.
Thank you to everyone that submitted their creations to this challenge!
We here at Desert Bus for Hope would like to thank one of our technical sponsors for this year’s event: Corsair.
Founded in 1994, Corsair has grown from pioneering the high-performance DRAM market into one of the world’s leading providers of high-performance PC peripherals and components. Corsair offers a complete range of products to equip gamers, enthusiasts and e-sports athletes, including mechanical keyboards, precision gaming mice, wireless headsets, high-performance components that gamers use to build gaming PCs, and the Corsair One fully-integrated gaming PC. With a company-wide commitment to quality, innovative design, advanced features and high performance, Corsair products have won thousands of media and industry awards, earning their place in gamers’ hands and PCs following years of development and engineering by a team dedicated to building great products they themselves would want to use.
Thank you Corsair for supporting this year’s Desert Bus for Hope!
Photo by Kolin Toney
Not one, not two… three HYPE. Shakespeare Hype! Just normal things happening here on Alpha Flight Day 5… yep. Totally fine.
Here’s what else you missed during today’s Alpha Flight.
Mikey Neumann called in to say hi!
We have some GM time, answering your questions.
The room does the Peanuts dance.
Shakespeare HYPE!
And we record some voice lines for the Desert Bus Game Jam.
Remember, for the latest updates, stay tuned to desertbus.org. You can also catch up on the latest #DB2019 happenings around the web…
We here at Desert Bus for Hope would like to take a moment to thank one of our returning prize sponsors for this year’s event: Wizards of the Coast.
Founded in 1990, Wizards of the Coast has been a powerhouse of the gaming world with their flagship franchises of Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons. With countless numbers of players across the globe, the reach of the games of Wizards of the Coast is endless.
Thank you Wizards of the Coast for your continued support of Desert Bus for Hope!
We’re kicking off a new donation drive for more Magic: the Gathering cards! In this donation drive, we’re giving away a full set of Japanese War of the Spark cards.
The Planar Bridge, The Immortal Sun, an army of undead Eternals, and a general to lead them. All the pieces of Nicol Bolas’s grand plan are in place. His Eternals will harvest the Sparks of Planeswalkers lured to Ravnica from across the Multiverse to fuel the Elderspell, and return to Bolas the power he rightly deserves. But the Planeswalkers, led by the Gideon Jura and the Gatewatch, and the citizens of Ravnica have no intention of dying without a fight.
Includes one copy of all 264 cards in the Magic: the Gathering War of the Spark set, printed in Japanese, plus one copy each of the 36 Japanese Alternate-Art Planeswalker cards.
Donate $8.48 (or multiples thereof) for a chance to win this prize. We’ll run this donation drive until 5:40pm PST.
We here at Desert Bus for Hope would like to take a moment to thank one of our returning prize sponsors for this year’s event, MomoCon.
With more than 39,300 unique and over 120,000 turnstile attendance in 2018, MomoCon is one of the fastest growing all ages conventions in the country. Fans of Japanese Anime, American Animation, Comics, Video Games, and Tabletop Games come together to celebrate their passion by costuming/cosplay, browsing the huge exhibitors hall, meeting celebrity voice talent, designers, and writers behind their favorite shows, games, and comics and much much more over this 4 day event.
Thank you MomoCon for your continued support of Desert Bus for Hope!
WHOOOOOO you all are awesome! We’ve raised $550,000 this year for Child’s Play Charity!
We are eternally grateful for your generosity. THANK YOU!
We’re wrapping up our call with Mikey, and, as is tradition, he’s generously donated multiple surprise giveaway lots of cool movie stuff!
We’ve got…
To enter for one of these lots, donate one of the following (or multiple thereof)…
We’ll run these donation drives until 4:15pm PST.
