{"id":103821,"date":"2019-11-15T19:38:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T19:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/354159"},"modified":"2019-11-15T19:38:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T19:38:00","slug":"charity-streaming-event-desert-bus-for-hope-surpasses-6-million-in-lifetime-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/15\/charity-streaming-event-desert-bus-for-hope-surpasses-6-million-in-lifetime-donations\/","title":{"rendered":"Charity streaming event Desert Bus for Hope surpasses $6 million in lifetime donations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annual charity fundraising event Desert Bus for Hope has, as of the close of its latest marathon, raised over $6 million for charity in the 12 years since its very first run.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, <a href=\"https:\/\/desertbus.org\/?id=21838\">2019\u2019s days-long saga raised $864,415<\/a>&nbsp;for the charity Child\u2019s Play. The core of the annual event is a live-streamed&nbsp;session Desert Bus minigame from the unreleased 1995 Sega CD game <em>Penn &amp; Teller\u2019s Smoke and Mirrors<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>That segment simulates a real-time bus trip between Tuscon, Arizona and Las Vegas, Nevada, requiring players to take control of the bus for eight actual, real world hours to complete the journey.<\/p>\n<p>The Desert Bus for Hope adopted the strange mini-game into a live-streamed charity event where the journey lasts as long as donations over a gradually increasing threshold continue to roll in, all the while hosting guests and charity events as the bus rolls along.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s event saw the trip lasting 162 total hours, and tipping the event\u2019s lifetime earnings over that $6 million mark. Last year\u2019s event, for comparison, raised $730,099 and kept the bus moving for 160 to surpass $5 million lifetime raised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual charity fundraising event Desert Bus for Hope has, as of the close of its latest marathon, raised over $6 million for charity in the 12 years since its very first run. All in all, 2019\u2019s days-long saga raised $864,415&nbsp;for the charity Child\u2019s Play. The core of the annual event is a live-streamed&nbsp;session Desert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}