Thank you all for your wonderful entries into our art contest!! It was pretty darn tough, but we finally narrowed it down to our four runners up, and our one winner!
First, our runners up!
And now, our winner!!!!
Congratulations, Space Potato!! You've won a Desert Bus t-shirt, and a 2023 DBLoon!
We would like to thank Team 17, one of our amazing prize sponsors this year for their support of Desert Bus 2023! Team 17 is an independent games label that supports many indie studios across the world to help them create the games they've dreamed about!
Thank you so much for your support Team 17!
Family game night is back on! This pack of twenty (yes, 20) download codes from Team 17 includes a ton of different games, ranging from Greak: Memories of Azur (a puzzle platformer with gorgeous hand-drawn art that follows three siblings as they team up on adventure), to Moving Out (a goofy universe where physics can help or hinder your moving company’s success). Hit up the mini-golf links in Golf With Your Friends, and then check out Sweet Transit to live the dream of building self-sufficient cities where the only transportation is trains. The wide variety of games in this pack means there’s something for every mood, and with features like assist-mode, the whole family can play
To win, just donate $7.48 or positive multiple integers thereof from now until 4:45am PST to enter!
Our friends at Steve Jackson Games have kindly sent along two excellent board games, both of which have been signed by Steve Jackson!
Munchkin Lite is a fun and fast-paced version of the classic game of kicking the dungeon door and swiping as much loot as possible. It features 115 cards and is designed for 3-4 players.
Bill and Ted's Excellent Board Game has you traveling through time, collecting people from history to help you pass your history report. But every time you pick someone up, the phone booth breaks! Uncool! This game is out of print and makes a fun collector's item.
Donate $6.53 or positive multiple integers thereof from now until 2:09am PST for a chance to win!!
They're cozy. They're celestial. They'll tell you if you made that con save! It's a set of large plush dice! Measuring between 6' - 9" inches in diameter, this full set of 7 will need a full size castle for its dice tower. Set also includes Stardust Galaxy 16mm and 10mm poly dice from MDG for your smaller, more reasonably sized, gaming needs.
Set is made from cotton space fabric, foam interfacing and polyfill. Numbers are heat press vinyl and dice are machine sewn, hand finished.
Donate $6.62 from now until 1:30am PST for a chance to win!!
Zeta needs to find their holes. They're made for them! And we need your help. For our art challenge this evening, we'll provide you the template, and you make them fancy! We want you to take our holes, and turn them into Desert Bus for Hope tourist cutouts for us to stick our faces through!
You can find the template right here. It's a PNG with transparent holes ready for faces. We want to see your best ideas for our holes. No, I don't know what you mean by phrasing.
You have until 4:30am PST to get your entries into contest@desertbus.org with the subject line "Desert Bus Tourist Cut Outs", and the chosen winner will get BOTH a Desert Bus for Hope 2023 unisex t-shirt in the size of their choice, as well as a 2023 DBLoon!!
There's a point in any Desert Bus for Hope run when you can tell the switch has just flipped from "we're doing this thing for charity" to "what are we doing again? Who cares, just keep doing it!"
Tonight was the night that switch flipped.
Do not ask us why we suddenly care this much about crabs. Ask yourself, why don't you care this much about crabs? And know that anyone who delves too deep into the "what" and "why" of Nightwatch will end up like Jacob here. Observe:
Come visit us again anytime, Jacob! At your own risk, of course.
But Jacob was not our only visitor tonight! PJ needed a haircut, and what better time or place to get it done than during the middle of Nightwatch for a bit?
But then, things took a dark turn. Literally.
Because we got a visit... from Jigpaw.
We had no choice but to drop meat off a ladder into Graham's open mouth while he wore a helmet labeled Meat. No choice! Jigpaw demanded it very politely!
Mind you, some people just can't help but face god and walk backwards into hell. Specifically, Matt. Whether it be challenging chat to make him do 91 squats (and losing) or aggravating Ben, young Master Wiggins simply could not keep himself out of trouble this eve. Maybe he could take some lessons from Jordan in how to apologize (to LeVar Burton)?
We had a lot of fun tonight, and we're glad we spun out of control just in time for Rachel to see us at our burst. Tonight is her last night with Nightwatch, and we'll dearly miss her presence on our crew! At least we got a chance to sit down with her for an in-depth interview conducted professionally by Gibb.
Okay, Zeta. We dare you to get more weird than we were tonight. If anyone can do it, it's you... but we didn't make it easy!
Your Commander deck demands minions, and this bundle of Collector Boosters and Draft Boosters has all the options you need.
Donate $9.91 (or multiples thereof) by 11:15pm for a chance to win the Commander Masters Bundle!
When Desert Bus is over and you find yourself yearning for the quirky humor that has enlivened your many nights, fear not. You can still find members of the Desert Bus crew on the internet, doing comedy at Tiltyhouse! Thank you, members of Tiltyhouse, for letting us borrow you and thereby supporting Desert Bus year after year.