History VideoGame / BaldisBasicsInEducationAndLearning

In July 2018, game creator Micah [=McGonigal=] began a Kickstarter to create a full retail version of ''Baldi's Basics'', which would tentatively include new features such as new characters and items, randomly generated levels with news rooms featuring new mechanics, random in-game events to change up the gameplay, and a "field trip" bonus round to unlock buffs in the main game. A proof-of-concept demo of said bonus round can be found [[https://mystman12.itch.io/baldis-basics-camping here]].

* TurnsRed: Every problem you get wrong (so basically every notebook you collect aside from the first one) makes Baldi get faster.
** This (literally) happens to [[UpToEleven the entire schoolhouse]] once you collect all the notebooks and trigger the first fake exit.

* LightningBruiser: Baldi starts off as a MightyGlacier, but he gradually becomes faster and faster with every incorrect answer. In the original version, six wrong answers is the point he's straight up faster than the player, and 12 was enough for him to go into hyperspeed.

* ShoutOut: Parodied. In one room, the chalkboard says "Look! A WebAnimation/HomestarRunner reference!" (Another chalkboard actually does have a Homestar Runner reference, with a "g" described as "healthy".)

** The Principal’s whistling is sampled from an episode of WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball. It also serves as a reference to Film/KillBill.
* StylisticSuck: It looks ''terrible'', but only to induce a specific kind of nostalgia.

* SuddenlyShouting: A terrifying, [[SensoryAbuse rather loud]] example.

* FiveBadBand:The initial characters in the schoolhouse

** TheDragon: It's A Bully, who blocks your path until you give him items

** SixthRanger: 1st Prize, who was added in a future update. He hugs anyone he runs into.

The player is a student at Baldi's Schoolhouse, whose goal is to collect and fill out seven notebooks scattered about the campus (each notebook containing 3 math problems) that their friend had left in the school, but cannot get them himself due to "eating practice". The only problem is that a few questions are unsolvable BlackSpeech ([[EverybodyHatesMathematics like in real life]]), and Baldi gets so mad over failing students that [[DisproportionateRetribution he feels the need to hunt them down like the survival horror monster he really is with]] [[DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff a ruler in hand with your butt's name on it]]. Meanwhile, there are other entities in the school that try to hinder your progress, such as a jump-roping girl, the school's principal, a giant talking broom, a bully, a sock-puppet, and a hug-loving {{Cyborg}} on wheels.
The game can be downloaded [[https://mystman12.itch.io/baldis-basics here]].

!!The game provides examples of:

-->'''I HEAR EVERY DOOR YOU OPEN'''

** ''Baldi: Congratulations! You found all seven notebooks! Now all you have to do is '''GETOUTWHILEYOUSTILLCAAAAAAAN'''''

** '''Baldi: Congratulations! You found all seven notebooks! Now all you have to do is GETOUTWHILEYOUSTILLCAAAAAAAN'''

* NintendoHard: Since there's so many enemies you have to juggle, the game is remarkably hard. Not even {{LetsPlay/HarshlyCritical}} bothered beating it.

* AWinnerIsYou: When you get all the notebooks and exit the school, you get a screen which contains a slightly-altered picture from the title screen with text reading "Congratulations!!!! You won!". Back to the title screen. Considering the [[StylisticSuck nature]] of the game, odds are this was on purpose.

* DeconstructiveParody: Of edutainment games from TheNineties.
** Arguably, given its intentionally slapdash nature, massive amounts of StylisticSuck, as well as the blackboard simply reading "Insert Lore Here", it also counts as a parody of indie horror games in general, especially the kind that [[SurpriseCreepy play coy]] about their truly creepy nature like ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'' and [[Franchise/FiveNightsAtFreddys Freddy Fazbear's Pizza.]]

* NothingIsScarier: When you're solving the math problems, at first Baldi's face appears on a little screen near the bottom instructing you on what to do. But once you get a problem wrong, [[MusicalSpoiler the music suddenly cuts out]], and every time after that, Baldi won't be there, it'll just be a black screen.
** Not to mention the complete lack of music for most of the game. The only thing heard after failing for the first time is Baldi smacking his ruler...

* PressXToDie: There's nothing stopping you from getting every question wrong on the notebooks, much like there's nothing stopping Baldi from immediately bum-rushing you back to the title screen.

* ShoutOut: Parodied. In one room, the chalkboard says "Look! A WebAnimation/HomestarRunner reference!"

* SurpriseCreepy: The entire point. It looks like a cute 90's edutainment game, but it's in fact a terrifying survival horror title.

''Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning'' (also called ''Baldi's Basics'') is a quick indie horror game. It was hurriedly slapped together in a couple of days for a contest, and it shows, yet despite this, the game has almost immediately gained a cult following for uniquely utilizing a "terrible yet nostalgic 90's edutainment games" motif. In response, the developer greatly expanded upon it with a content update.

** As of the update, this is the normal ending, and the image is accompanied by "Wow, great job. Please try and do worse though I need to-" followed by a long beeping sound.

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[[caption-width-right:350: Education, learning, fun and [[BreadMilkEggsSquick unadulterated horror]] all in one!]]