Software company MumboJumbo has signed a licensing agreement to develop a new title based on the American version of Ricky Gervais’s sitcom.

Under the deal, it has the rights to use the likenesses of the show's cast, Hollywood trade magazine Variety reports, as well as audio and video clips.

Players will have to complete jobs and play pranks at the Scranton branch of Dunder Mifflin, as featured in the NBC comedy.

MumboJumbo specialises in making relatively cheap and simple titles for casual gamers to download onto their PC.

The company’s Mike Suarez said: ‘We were anxious to expand our audience with a property that has broad appeal and works well as a game. It will help us to demonstrate that casual games are the true mass videogame market.’

The game will be available for the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP handheld consoles, as well as the PC.