things are at the beginning of the game. It would take at least two years to bring out the game and that’s after we’ve confirmed the budget and platform. The game could just as easily go away, get moved to the iPhone or become a Jim Tetris knock off as come out as a game on the Wii. People don’t understand how unstable game design is at the start. TenNapel also emphasized the importance of getting the original team members back together (such as David Perry and Nick Bruty) and being able to adapt to the higher production values and demands of the current generation of video game consoles. Overall, he said that while Interplay was still interested in doing the game, no development, or terms of it, had been completed. Another year passed before anything was heard about the game again. In May, 2011, Interplay announced that they were experiencing financial troubles again, including "substantial debt" and continued operating losses, and that could leave many future games in jeopardy. Despite TenNapel's comments a year prior, in these reports, Interplay listed the game as "Earthworm Jim 4, a project still in development but at an unknown state." At the "Develop" conference in July 2012, Shiny Entertainment founder, David Perry, released a statement that he's sure there will be another Earthworm Jim game. He claimed the problem was "when", not "if", as, while the development team members discuss the project actively, they are all busy with their separate projects and companies. A possible premise he outlined was as follows: The thing we had talked about in the past is Jim had been in retirement...So, he's been sitting at home watching movies and eating popcorn. He's grossly overweight now. The plan was to start with him literally getting off the sofa, and it's a disaster because he just hasn't done anything since. But he's got to get back into action again. While details regarding just how much Jim being out of shape would affect game design are still up in the air, Perry mentioned being pretty certain that the game would be played in 2D. In October 2015, original Earthworm Jim lead artist, Nick Bruty, held a Reddit AMA, where he addressed the issues that the fourth title fell into, stating: Oh man. A new EWJ game with the original team almost happened about 5 years ago but a deal with the