Video Games Procedural Generation

I found this pretty amazing. This is a small beta demo some German guys won an award for that employs heavy use of procedural generation – generating graphics on the fly using algorithms rather than beforehand. The result is a 96kb executable rather than what would likely have been several megabytes if everything came pre-packaged.

http://www.theprodukkt.com/kkrieger

It's a technique employed by the upcoming Spore, designed by Will Wright (The Sims).