Is there a script engine that implements NPC auto movements?

[jlapton]

What I want to do is:
write a script and describe NPCs on the screen and let them move one by one, during the movements some of them will display some animations maybe.

I know I can chain some Actor's Actions(MoveTo,RotateTo etc) together but I find it difficult when there are mass of actions, so I'm wondering is there an existing engine so that I can just write some scripts to make this.

Thanks for any idears

[Varriount]

Well, while I don't know any script loader off-hand, I don't think it would be too hard to assemble a basic script reader.

Personally, I would use yaml, xml, or some other markup language to define a series of movements, construct a loader to load and parse the file at the start of the game, and inject the parsed movements into whatever handles NPC movement logic upon creation of the NPC. I don't think this would work too well for complicated movements, but I can see it working well for a series of predefined movements.

Alternatively, you could take SpriteBatch's approach, and have movements hooked up like the draw operations are done.
What do you think of this?

[jlapton]

Thanks Varriount, I did wrote an "engine" -- actually a loader/container, in which I put libgdx Sequences, and execute them one by one.So in this way I can combine lots of actions together.
However I'm not very clear and still trying to add some sprite animations(like character walking or waving a sword etc) into to the action list.

[Varriount]

Well, if you need some help, paste some code and we can see what we can do.