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Posted: December 11th 2005
Last Updated: December 11th 2005

The now defunct Randmap was once a great program that would automatically generate random single player maps for Half-Life. The random generation was based on rooms and prefabs that users could download, modify, or even add themselves, which made it very easy to add more quality, and randomness (therefore making it look less "fakey") .But it wasn't limited to only Half-Life, lots of other Half-Life mods were also included in Randmap generation as well.

Complete list of supported games as seen on v5.00 alpha 2.2 (last version):

Half-Life Single Player
SvenCoop
SvenCoop 1.9+
Half-Life Opposing Force (with or without marines)
Half-Life Deathmatch
Counter-Strike
Counter-Life
Death Match Classic (DMC)

The last version (5.00a2.2) does no longer compile the map properly, and no longer runs the game after completion (If you are using Steam), since the last version was released before Steam was released. But it will work if you install from the original Half-Life CD, and update it to the last version. For that reason, I won't even bother hosting a download, but also for a different reason if you look below.

WHY I'm I writing about a program that is obsolete?

Well because, that's what I do best, but also because I am actually re-opening this program to my own unofficial development. That's right, I will soon be releasing version 6.0 of Randmap. Since I do not have the source code for this program, which supposedly is gone forever, I will be hacking the .exe just to make it work in Steam. Since there is limited functionality, or things you can successfully "hack", this release won't be much more than a working version for Steam. No new programming will be found. I will also be updating each of the themes, with more prefabs and more rooms, and some misc changes.

Missing STUFF!

After the last version was released a bunch of people, mainly a person named Chris Dragon (Shatterfrost) did some extensive modification to the program, and added hundreds of new prebabs, rooms, and themes. This .zip was around 29 megabytes (as apposed to about 1 meg of the original file). This package is supposedly also lost forever, but somebody out there may still have it, if you do, please email me about it.

I'd also like to thank Razed (project leader) and Justin Frei for there contributions.