Time to kick off another Donation Drive! This one is for a super snazzy Desert Bus for Hope 2019 T-Shirt. You’ve seen them on-air, and now you can win one. It’s gray! It’s orange! It’s neon! It’s fantastic!

Donate $5.01 (or multiples thereof) for a chance to win this prize. We’ll run this donation drive unti 4:00pm PST.

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

Ysbyrd Games is an 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 Ysbyrd’s community manager, Jacob Burgess, joining us on Alpha Flight every day during the event. Thank you Ysbyrd for your support of Desert Bus for Hope!

Is there a space on your wall, or on your bookshelf, or in your Pinny Arcade collection binder, that needs to be filled with Desert Bus for Hope memories that you can look back on year-round? Well, good news: this year’s Desert Bus for Hope merch is now live on the LoadingReadyRun store!

This year, we’ve got…

• This year’s poster, created live during the event by M Lee Lunsford.
• The Desert Bus for Hope 2018 Softcover Photo Book, created by Kolin Toney.
• This year’s Desert Bus for Hope Pinny Arcade Pin, featuring a very fresh pine tree air freshener hanging off the rear view window.
• Back by popular demand, Desert Bus Shift Playmats, featuring the four shifts of Desert Bus for Hope.

As always, these are pre-order items and partial proceeds from every sale go towards this year’s run total. (Check out the individual items for details on each.)

And, don’t forget about the super radical Desert Bus for Hope 2019 T-Shirt, currently available on Fangamer.

Koroks- those tiny, frustrating, delightful forest spirits from the Legend of Zelda games- make the perfect plush companion. No two are exactly alike- and no two of our Korok plushies are exactly the same! Our main line includes “spring” Koroks with leaf mask faces embroidered on green fleece. These limited edition Autumn Koroks were a short run special edition and were only ever sold in-person at conventions. These are the last four available, only here at Desert Bus for Hope 2019!

Donate $9.03 (or multiples thereof) for a chance to win this prize. We’ll run this donation drive until 3:10pm PST.

We’re running a giveaway right now for these handcrafted nested dice bowls! Three bowls intended for throwing dice during hectic fantasy role playing games like Dungeons and Dragons. These bowls are hand made, one of a kind with flat sides to contain even enthusiastic dice throws. The bottoms are covered in a thin neoprene mat to quiet the dice rattle. Each bowl fits into the next for storage and an impressive display. The small bowl in made from Hickory. The middle bowl is walnut and the large bowl is Elm. All the wood is from fallen trees in Middle Tennessee north of Nashville.

We rolled to determine how much to give these away for and the dice have chosen $8.43. Donate $8.43 (or multiples thereof) for a chance to win this prize. We’ll run this donation drive until 1:45pm PST.

We’ve got some silent auctions that I’d love to tell you about! Both of these will end at 4pm PST so keep a close eye!

Our first silent auction going up for the day is a beautiful jewelry set made of painted stone, with a bonus Omega stone! Sport your favourite, or just switch between them as the day passes, it’s all up to you! This is currently running at over $700! Go give it a shot and some love.

The other silent auction we’ve got going right now is a beautifully made quilt covered in Desert Bus for Hope art. Shirt designs, logos, creepy dolls (and a lot of them!), so many things! This auction is already almost to $1.5k! Go check it out and bid away!

Thanks to our wonderful friends at Fangamer doing a shirt drop, we’ve hit a time honoured milestone of a Desert Buck! We couldn’t do this without all your help, giving to such a wonderful charity for amazing little geeks just like us who need the help!

We’re proud to welcome back Humble Bundle as a sponsor of Desert Bus for Hope.

Humble Bundle is a distribution platform that sells games, ebooks, software, and other digital content and contributes to hundred of charities through every sale. Since Humble’s founding in 2010, their mission has been to support charity while providing awesome content to customers at great prices. From their beginnings offering game bundles, they’ve grown to include an online storefront, publishing, a monthly subscription service, and more.

Thank you Humble Bundle for your contributions and support of Desert Bus for Hope!