The Neverhood/Trivia

• Over two tons of Klay er, clay were used to animate the game.
• The radio song "Sound Effects Record #33" contains backmasked singing in the shower. If you reverse it, the song being sung turns out to be "Khumbaya."
• The radio song "Chiming In" is also backmasked. The eerie, dissonant sounds are those of a music box, and all the background noises captured while recording it--including someone breathing into a mic and the music box being wound.
• Slow down the radio "song" "Scary Robot Man," and its true nature will be revealed: It's a sped-up, distorted ramble, done in a vaguely Indian/Hindi accent, about... being lost at a wedding, Slurpees, and McDonalds.
• Descended Creator: All the voices in the game (aside from Stock Screams) are provided by the creators. Doug TenNapel is Klogg, Big Robot Bil, and Hoborg; animator Ed Schofield is Klaymen; and co-writer Mark Lorenzen plays Willie Trombone.
• Development Hell: Not the game, the movie based on it. It wont happen now since Doug himself has stated that the movie is dead.
• No Export for You: The original game also had a PlayStation release, but only in Japan. Which despite having Loads and Loads of Loading, has one-slot memory card save, mouse support and completely cut Hall of Records'. There was also a technically unofficial Gaiden Game made by the the Japanese publishers of the game, River Hill Soft, also not released outside Japan.
• Vaporware: For the movie based on the game. Doug was planning on it, and it would've been produced by Frederator Studios (the animation company behind The Fairly OddParents, Adventure Time, and others), but sadly has been canceled due to lack of funding for the project. However, there is some interesting concept art and rough beta script around, so at least we got the see the potential ideas.

---

Back to The Neverhood