Characters are the player characters and NPCs in the Baldi's Basics series, which can be students, school faculty, and other things in the Schoolhouse or Super Schoolhouse alike. While all of the characters are obstacles to challenge or get away from, Baldi is the only hostile character to cause the game to end by catching the player themselves.
The original cast of characters from left to right: Arts and Crafters, Playtime, 1st Prize, Baldi, It's a Bully, Principal of the Thing, Gotta Sweep, and Cloudy Copter.
All of the non-player characters are designed as 2D sprites, similar to the items and environment objects. For the game's weird bizarre purpose, the characters lack stylistic unity. The characters' sprites are scanned with CGI models, flash animation or 2D drawings, and realistic photography. To fit the game's nostalgia themes, most of them are edited with a dithering effect and a lot of size reduction.
filename2 is a mysterious character who appears completely different out of all characters in the game. Being one of the corrupted files hidden in the game, he is typically aware of the game, breaking the fourth wall by telling the player to destroy the game before it's too late. In Baldi's Basics Birthday Bash, some other glitched entities are SpoopBalloons. Purple, blue, green, and orange SpoopBalloons appear floating aimlessly while a swarm of buzzing red ones will constantly follow the player but do no harm. Plus, when entering the hidden room after SpoopBalloon puzzle is solved, a corrupted texture of a Baldi-like character called DSCI_0000 will appear randomly on the walls.
Minor characters that appear hidden in secret locations as Easter eggs. They lack their overall personal behavior functions as they take a very small role in the game. These include 0th Prize and PlaceFace.
Johnny is the shopkeeper of the store. He will greet the player upon entering the store in between floors. He will offer filled maps, items, and characters to expel. The player has to earn You Thought Points to purchase things in the store.
The idea of characters appearing as 3D models, drawings, or photo-cropped may be based on the Cartoon Network animation series The Amazing World of Gumball where it also has a lack of stylistic unity on characters.
All 3D-model characters (Baldi, It's a Bully, 1st Prize, Mrs. Pomp, The Test, PlaceFace, Cloudy Copter, and Johnny seen from the elevator) are made in a 1999 3D-modelling/animation program called Anim8or.
All 2D-drawn characters are made in GIMP (Chalkles and Johnny), Paint.NET (Beans), and Microsoft Paint (Playtime).
Animals are the only characters that are made in pixels.
Principal of the Thing and The Test are the only characters that are not really seen without the dithering effect.
There is a Doppler effect where the characters' voice lines randomly change pitch and are distorted. For instance, it commonly happens with Gotta Sweep when sweeping characters. Currently in Baldi's Basics Plus, this effect only applied to Gotta Sweep and Arts and Crafters.
All NPCs do not have eyesight through windows, so they cannot see the player through them. The player can see any NPC by them, however.
A Baldi-like character posted in mystman12's Twitter.
On July 25, 2020, a new character resembling Baldi was intentionally leaked in a post made by mystman12. He has a slightly bigger ruler than Baldi's one.[1] No official information has been revealed concerning whether or not this character is related to Baldi, or if it is even intended to be canon whatsoever.
Baldi's Basics Plus
Prior to V0.3, all characters are slower because this update patch increases the overall game speed.
References
↑"With all these #Nintendo #leaks happening, it makes me wonder... Can I leak my own content? Let's try it and see what happens! COUGH" - mystman12. July 25, 2020. Twitter
