Procedural generation can now create universes, game mechanics, and even complete, standalone 2D and 3D games.

Procedural Content Generation (PCG): The algorithmic creation of game content, such as levels, quests or characters, relying on computational models to produce diverse and adaptive gameplay ...

A new piece of software just released from animation startup Midas Touch Interactive called Midas Creature is designed to add secondary animation to 2d characters – automatically.