Oh! Hi again! It's Cole writing once again.
Expected another tone deafening year long radio silence, didn't you?

Well too bad, it's Decemberween Season, and it's another time of the year we can actually tell you what the HECK we've been up to as of late!

Real Life Business Stinks!

As always - it's a pain - I am sure neither of us are a stranger to such novel fact. Nothing much else we can do about it, but comply with such things. That stinks, but whatever. For as long as some time is saved for our own personal hobbies and projects we really want to work on, including... you know, whatever project this devlog article is related to.

Besides that - I got myself a new workstation PC that can really help me out a lot with certain aspects of game development that may infact also come in handy for this weird lil' Baldi's Basics fangame.

...Speaking of!

What we've been up to?

Since the previous devlog entry, uh....... Huh. well... actually, there was not a whole lot noteworthy stuff we can talk about.

Strange.

Not very surprising...but still strange.

Oh well. But surely there'll be a lot more stuff to show off eventually. Just don't want to rush it. We'd rather take out sweet-ass time to make this game as dandy it can possibly be, even if it takes forever, because life, game developmental laws of physics and whatnot...

...so let me spill the beans I've managed to collect thys far!

We have a new team member!

...Wait, we do?

...You don't mean th-...

...Okay.

SO. We've got another artist onboard!

Some of you may or may not know him for combining a certain 'sit-on-your-ass-and-survive-until-the-morning' game with a Warner Bros. Intellectual Property.

Some of you may or may not know him for helping out with a few other certain fangames of that samesy category, whenever or not they're fully released or not.

Please welcome @FazieFunbear !

Fazie will be helping us bring some (or bringing back) certain characters to life and other buggers by doing some of the spritework and another few other things, probably.

...is that good?

...well, I don't know what else to tell 'em about. I honestly told the reader(s) all what I-- what?

...AH YEAH, SURE! SURE! ALMOST FORGOT! Hang on now...

I've been just reminded to tell you that

We are working on our own soundtrack!

Yeah, can you actually believe it?

Baldi's Basics: Back to School being a fangame to not utilize some random royalty-free stock music from the depths of the interwebinets and neither reuse music from the source material it's based on?

Yeahhh, as you can see, we are quite that passionate about this project that it will have it's very own soundtrack to fill in the silence while you ain't around the ruler slaps and other sorts of annoying chatter!

And believe it or not, even I on occasion make some tunes for this game.

But I am not saying that it's any good. Nor could it be unbearable. To be honest, I'll leave it to @Gcan123 who will be the judge of that.

And before you ask... yes, I totally brought that up because you all will be getting a neat lil' sneak peek at some of the tracks we already have prepared on... you guessed it! Christmas! (or at least by or after Christmas) As our first gift to you all in graditude for putting up with the wait thys far... 😅

As for the programming?...

Well... I've decided to start programming a better framework for... a variety of reasons:

• Keepin' that stupid code cleeeeEEEEEEAAAAAN;

• Making a more stable Baldi AI;

• Makin' proper controls that doesn't send people flying through walls to their unfortunate demise;

• Proper support for keyboard+mouse and gamepad input;

  and so on and so forth.

And so far it's going relatively fine.

...I really don't know what else to share with you in a very understandable non-gibberish language.

Besides, I am tired.

I shouldn't have decided to write this thing at 9 PM while I am feeling insanely drowsy.

I am going to catch some rest. I have one more mid-term exam to tackle on Saturday of all days.

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah (if you've still having it, gonna have it, or already had it), Happy New Year, have a wonderful safe Holiday.

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