/tags/easter-egg/Recent content in Easter-Egg on Xusheng LiHugoen-us<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CC BY-NC 4.0</a>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000/posts/reversing/dev_hunter/readme/Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000/posts/reversing/dev_hunter/readme/<p>Dev Hunter is a small game hidden inside Microsoft Excel 2000. It was one of the few pastimes I had during the dull computer classes I sat through in high school, and, like all adults who grow nostalgic for the things they had when they were young, I eventually went looking for it again.</p> <p>This post is the whole story of chasing it down: first getting the game to run on its own outside of Excel, and then — years later — freeing it completely, into a standalone program that carries nothing of Excel with it at all.</p>