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Doodle Jump is best-selling iPhone game

4m copies now sold. iPad version coming.

Doodle Jump has been declared the most popular game in the App Store.

Sales of the simple-but-fun offering have now surpassed the 4 million mark. There have never been lite versions of the game or special offers, so in terms of revenue that amounts to 4 million times 59p.

According to Touch Arcade, an iPad version of the game is currently in development. There's no word on a release date.