40 Fun Facts About Baldi's Basics

In Baldi's Basics, which classroom object does Baldi slap against his hand while chasing the player?

A ruler gives him away: each slap marks his movement, and the slaps quicken as he gets angrier. The sound was recorded with a plastic one, though his is wooden.

How many notebooks must the player collect to escape the school in the original Baldi's Basics?

Seven is the target, and picking each one up opens a three-question quiz on a tablet called the You Can Think Pad.

Which school subject is the only one actually taught in the original Baldi's Basics?

Math is the lone subject, though the store page jokingly promises spelling too. A spelling lesson was started during development and never finished.

In Baldi's Basics, what does the Principal of the Thing give a player caught running in the halls?

Detention lasts 15 seconds the first time and grows with every offence, up to 99 seconds. Being locked in also brings Baldi straight to the room.

In Baldi's Basics, which game does the little girl Playtime force the player to stop and play?

Jump rope with her means clearing five jumps in a row, and a miss starts the count again. All the while the player is stuck in place.

In Baldi's Basics, the slow-turning robot 1st Prize charges at the player because it loves what?

Hugging people is its only goal, but the embrace carries the player off down the corridor. The robot got its name by winning a science fair.

Which Baldi's Basics character bursts from a closet every few minutes and shoves everyone along?

Gotta Sweep was meant to be a human janitor, but with the contest deadline close the creator photographed his own broom instead.

Which crowdfunding site raised more than $61,000 in 2018 to turn Baldi's Basics into a full game?

Kickstarter backers pledged $61,375 against a $50,000 goal, and the expanded game they paid for reached early access two years later.

Baldi's Basics went viral once Markiplier, PewDiePie and Jacksepticeye each made what kind of video?

A Let's Play from each of them spread the free game fast, and by August 2018 it had been downloaded more than a million times.

In Baldi's Basics, what does spraying a can of BSODA do to Baldi and other characters in its path?

The blue spray pushes them back, and a character caught in it cannot move on its own until it hits a wall. A free can sits on a cafeteria table in the original game.

Which Baldi's Basics item ends Playtime's game early and makes the robot 1st Prize spin in circles?

Safety Scissors snip the robot's wires, leaving it spinning for 15 seconds in the original game. The in-game shop calls them the dullest pair ever made.

In the original Baldi's Basics, what does Baldi hand over for getting the first three answers right?

A quarter is the reward, and it can buy a snack from a vending machine or work the pay phone, whose noise throws every character off the trail.

In Baldi's Basics, eating an Energy Flavored Zesty Bar instantly refills which player resource?

Stamina is what lets the player run, and the snack overfills the meter so they can sprint about twice as long as usual.

In Baldi's Basics, what does the ringing of a placed Alarm Clock item do to Baldi?

It draws him toward it ahead of most other noises, until he reaches the spot or sees the player. In the original game it rings 30 seconds after being set down.

In Baldi's Basics, what colour floods the school once the player reaches the first fake exit?

Red light fills the halls, and the false way out turns into a wall showing a map of the building. Three of the four ways out are fakes.

In Baldi's Basics, what hidden trap guarantees that Baldi turns hostile on even the best players?

An unsolvable problem ends every quiz after the first: the numbers turn to gibberish and his voice breaks into static as he reads them out.

According to a poster in Baldi's Basics, which of Baldi's senses makes him such a great teacher?

Hearing is how he hunts: he can tell where a sound came from and who made it, so every door the player opens sends him the right way.

In Baldi's Basics, what colour is the long-sleeved shirt that Baldi wears with his blue jeans?

Green is his usual colour, but in a microgame called Bad Ball by the same creator he wears a blue shirt, a slip the creator spotted only after recording it.

In Baldi's Basics, what kind of handmade object is the shy, jealous Arts and Crafters?

A sock puppet with googly eyes, it hides from view for most of the game and resents anyone who holds more notebooks than it does.

Which solo developer, known online as mystman12, created Baldi's Basics in about two weeks?

Micah McGonigal, from Waynesboro, Virginia, says he has beaten the original game only once, and that was during a livestream.

Baldi's Basics was built in two weeks as an entry for which contest hosted on Itch.io?

Meta Game Jam asked for games with self-aware twists, and this entry finished as runner-up, narrowly behind one called Farfalle OS.

Which 1996 educational game did the creator of Baldi's Basics cite as inspiring its eerie look?

Sonic's Schoolhouse and similar 1990s edutainment struck him as somehow wrong when he watched footage, so he chased that feeling by mixing crude 3D with flat 2D art.

The creator of Baldi's Basics entered the contest it was made for mainly to practise which engine?

Unity was new to him, and he shelved remakes of his older handheld games so that he could learn it under a deadline.

Before Baldi's Basics made him a teacher, Baldi starred in his creator's childhood comics as what?

An inventor whose gadgets always failed was the first Baldi, in the Baldimore comic strips his creator drew as an 11- or 12-year-old, years before the game.

In Baldi's Basics, why does the little girl Playtime speak in a flat, strangely deep voice?

Her creator voiced her himself, and the recording peaks so often that she ranks among the loudest characters in the school.

Baldi's arm bends at an impossible angle when he waves hello in Baldi's Basics because of what?

An animation mistake produced the wonky wave, and the creator kept it because it looked creepier than a normal greeting.

A Kotaku review likened Baldi's Basics to which 2012 horror game about a faceless forest stalker?

Slender: The Eight Pages has the same loop of gathering scattered objects while a pursuer closes in, and the reviewer jokingly called the classroom version her worst nightmare.

The mobile ports and later Baldi's Basics releases were published under which studio name?

Basically Games is a one-person label: its founder is the sole developer of every game in the series.

In the Baldi's Basics Field Trip demo, what must the player keep burning to stop Baldi giving chase?

A campfire needs a steady supply of logs in the forest demo, which was released to promote the crowdfunding drive for the full game.

Baldi's Basics Birthday Bash, released on April 1, 2019, was a special edition marking what event?

Its first anniversary brought party hats, balloons and gift-wrapped random items, and the ending has the player blow out a candle on a giant cake.

Which feature of roguelike games did Baldi's Basics Plus add to the original game's formula?

Randomly generated maps mean no two runs share a layout, and random events such as fog or floods can strike in the middle of a level.

In Baldi's Basics Plus, what does the propeller-capped student Beans spit at the player?

Bubble gum from Beans sticks to whoever it hits, the player or another character, and drags their speed right down for ten seconds.

In Baldi's Basics Plus, what sends the cheerful teacher Mrs. Pomp into a furious rage at the player?

Missing her class is the trigger: she hops around on a high-heeled shoe handing out invitations, then turns on anyone who shows up late.

In Baldi's Basics Plus, what happens to the world around the player while they stare at The Test?

Time slows down for every other character too, which can save a chase, but stare for too long and the figure malfunctions and explodes.

In the endless mode of Baldi's Basics, what does getting a notebook's answers right do to Baldi?

It reduces his speed, which is the only way to last: he gets faster steadily over time, and the aim is simply to grab as many notebooks as possible before being caught.

In Baldi's Basics, what does Arts and Crafters do to a player with every notebook who stares at it?

It teleports them away to the hallway where the game began and brings Baldi along too, which can be a shortcut or a disaster.

In Baldi's Basics, which hidden character waits in Baldi's office if every answer is given wrong?

Null, little more than floating clothes, hair and eyes, warns the player to close the game, destroy it and never play again. Then the program crashes.

Baldi's deliberately crude character model in Baldi's Basics was built in which 3D modelling tool?

Anim8or also explains his odd grey elbow in the original: the creator forgot to colour it, and the program's default shade stayed.

Baldi's Basics Plus entered early access in 2020 on Itch.io, Game Jolt and which PC storefront?

Steam got the unfinished game on June 12, 2020, priced at $10, with the price set to rise as development went on.

The Baldi's Basics Plus doctor Dr. Reflex was built from what material, then photographed?

Clay over a wire skeleton gave the school doctor his lumpy look, and when angered he pulls out a comically large reflex hammer.