IDEA: Acting script performance program

This is an idea I had several years back, while playing Final Fantasy III (American release, I think it was actually Final Fantasy VI). There were quite a few "cinematic" scenes, where the characters talked to each other while moving around the screen and performing certain pre-programmed actions.

So, from this, I thought it might be possible to create an application that accepted a script, then enacted it on the screen.

Unfortunately, they'd have to be told things like "move forward a step, move in front of X, exit stage left, throw up your hands in disgust," and so on, which means some kind of programming or scripting has to go on for this.

Oddly enough, in the present day, this is both somewhat easy... and possibly unnecessary. But, just in case someone else can run with this and do something with it, I wanted to mention it. That's what this blog is for!