Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning

***Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning*** (or Baldi's Basics Classic and simply **Baldi's Basics**) is a free-to-play survival horror indie video game. It was released on March 31, 2018 for PC. _Baldi's Basics_ is a parody; it takes the appearance of an educational video game from the 1990s, while the gameplay is centered on survival horror.

## Gameplay

The player must find their friend's seven notebooks that are spread throughout the school, without being caught by their teacher, Baldi, and being hindered by the other students and faculty. Each notebook has at least one wrong answer with the exception of the first notebook. Along the way they can collect items to help them. It is impossible to get the last question correct on all notebooks with the exception of the first notebook.

The game was initially made as an entry in the annual Meta-Game Jam, where it received 2nd place. It became popular for its humor-like difficulty and strange-looking levels. Popular YouTubers such as Markiplier made videos showing themselves playing the game.

## _Baldi's Basics Plus_

The developer launched a Kickstarter for the game, asking the public for money.  The developer announced that the full game would be released sometime in late 2019 or early 2020. The Kickstarter, as of February 4, 2019, had raised a total US$61,375.

On August 13, 2019, the _Baldi's Basics_ full game demo was released for the public.

An enhanced Kickstarter Exclusive Demo came out on November 5, 2019.

On March 31, 2020, ***Baldi's Basics Plus***, a version of the original with more features, was announced in itch.io. The early access trailer was posted on May 9, 2020 and it was released for early access on June 12, 2020.

## Characters

- Protagonist: They are the main character that you play yourself.
- Baldi: He is the teacher of the game that teaches normal and extremely complicated mathematics.
- Principal of the Thing: He is the principal of the schoolhouse that whistles (he doesn't whistle when he scolds at the player) and says "No [command] in the halls!" for breaking the school rules, which are running, entering/leaving/being inside the rooms that say "School Faculty Only", using the BSODA or escaping detention while you have detention (or using the Energy Flavored Zesty Bar prior to version 1.3). If caught, he will teleport the player to his office, putting you in detention for 15 seconds. Each time the Principal catches the player breaking the rule, the detention time goes by 15 seconds until 60 seconds. Any detention after 60 seconds will last 99 seconds.
- It's a Bully: He is the school bully that takes item randomly from your inventory. He can also be sent to detention by the Principal but is not seen in the detention room.
- Gotta Sweep: A broom who sweeps the halls and is able to push anything in its way including the player.
- 1st Prize: Like Gotta Sweep, he can push the player, and only the player, wanting hugs.
- Arts and Crafters: He is a sock puppet who does nothing until you get 7 notebooks, he will teleport the player close to Baldi from the starting point.
- Playtime: She is a little girl who has a jump rope and forces the protagonist to jump 5 times. You can press the space bar to jump. She can be defeated using scissors, which can help you from not playing with her for 15 seconds.
- Null: Previously believed to be named "filename2", Null is a character that can be found at the end of the story mode when getting every math answer wrong. In _Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered_, there is a secret mode named 'Null Style' where he is revealed to be an overarching antagonist and he tries to kill you.

## Infobox (video game)

- **title**: Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning
- **image**: Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning.svg
- **developer**: Mystman12
- **publisher**: Basically, Games!
- **engine**: Unity (game engine), Unity
- **platforms**: Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Android (operating system), Android
- **genre**: Survival horror
Indie game