iPhone game 'Doodle Jump' passes 3M premium downloads

Youth-focused development studio Lima Sky announced its Doodle Jump game has now sold more than 3 million copies via Apple's App Store. The game--priced at 99 cents--has sold over 1.6 million units in 2010 alone, topping the App Store's paid apps countdown in the U.S., U.K., Germany and Australia along the way. According to Lima Sky, Doodle Jump is now played 5 million times each day.

Optimized for users age four and up, Doodle Jump features the character Doodle the Doodler--players guide him on his journey up a sheet of graph player via the iPhone's tilt controls, acquiring jet packs, avoiding black holes and fending off enemies as they jump from platform to platform. Lima Sky issued the latest update to the title last week.

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