 Due to his dissatisfaction with the way David Perry ran Shiny Entertainment, TenNapel left the company in 1995.Two weeks later he announced at E3 that he started his own company, The Neverhood, Inc., which consisted of a number of people who worked on the" Earthworm Jim" game and its sequel.Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks Interactive, which had recently started, needed fresh and unusual projects and TenNapel approached Spielberg with the idea of a claymation game, with Spielberg accepting it for publication.