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We did another Desert Bus! It was crazy! We pulled in over $200,000 for Child's Play by dancing around like idiots and wearing silly hats while playing a very bad game. How does that work?

After sleeping two to three hours a night for the past week, I slept for about fifteen hours today. It turns out sleep is amazing. You should all try it sometime.

One thing I did not do this past DB that I realize now I should have was exploit all you fine folks. It would be awesome next year to do some indie prize pack giveaways, so I will definitely be trying to get in contact with any indies who have commercial releases and/or merch in eight months or so when LRR start looking at organizing year's event. Consider this your official warning!

Huge thanks to anyone who tuned in or popped into the chat, especially to Notch for both calling up and agreeing to auction off a Minecraft starting message (which wound up as "Play Minecraft, watch Top Gear, get pig," so keep an eye out for that one).

You were involved with Desert Bus?  Cool!  Are you part of the LRR crew or just a visitor?

I wish I could have donated, but I couldn't procure the funds.  Oh, well.  Maybe next year?

I'd volunteer my game, but it's free

You should put together a bundle of freeware games and try to auction it off for a truly ridiculous sum of money

I've been friends with the LRR folks for ages (since highschool!), and helped out at Desert Bus since it was "this marathon thing we're doing at Bill's house for the weekend," and that weekend turned into five days, and everyone wound up missing work and class, and we were blown away that we managed to raise over $22,000 dollars (which we actually raised within a twelve hour period this year).

This time I manned the challenges and giveaways in the very early morning PST (typically around 2:00-6:00 or 4:00-8:00 a.m.), took care of some of the food/coffee duties and made sure people who needed to be at the moonbase actually got there and on time. Depending on your timezone/sleep schedules I might have been doing off-camera stuff when you tuned in, so you may or may not have seen me around, but I was probably there doing something, in any case.

I'm sure we could move a freeware games pack for at least $400, depending on its positioning in the event (things tend to go for more the closer they are to the end), but while I'm convinced we can get people to buy basically anything, it's way nicer to actually put together packs of things that cost at least some money, especially if they include extras or signed things that aren't generally available to just anyone. Obviously people are there to give to charity, not to just buy shit, but it's infinitely preferable for things to feel like an actual, auctionable item.

Edit: and if you can't afford to donate, obviously just watching and talking in the chat is super awesome, and you can also spread the word via Facebook and Twitter. Also we do a grand prize giveaway every year to a random person who has donated at least $5, so even small donations are acceptable for that. Additionally, for the past couple of years we have done $5-10 challenges where anyone who donates the specified amount of money within the specified time gets a chance to win something, so you get to both donate a bit and have the chance to get some cool stuff, and that's going to continue next year. So if you only have like $10 or $20 to donate and can't be involved in the auctions, there's still lots of fun stuff you can do to get involved.

I have been there since DB1.
This year was absolutely excellent. Good show.