Playing a videogame with a textbox

 For arduino microcontrollers there is a standard display available with 20x4 characters. Such a small text display is a great choice for demonstrating grounded language in action. In an example jump'n'run sidesrolling game, the following text boxes were generated by the event detection engine:

Example 1
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PLAYER ON GROUND
JUMP READY         
COIN +1   TOTAL 5  
ENEMY NEAR -COVER  

Example 2
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DASH COOLDOWN 1.2s
PLATFORM AHEAD 3m 
SPIKE! STEP BACK   
HEALTH 4/5  POWERUP

Example 3
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FELL -1LIFE       
RESPAWN AT CHECKPT 
TIME 02:14       
KEY ACQUIRED  DOOR

Example 4
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SPEED BOOST ACTIVE
ENEMY HIT x2     
COMBO 3X  +50PTS 
SECRET PATH DETECTʼD

From a technical perspective such a textbox is highly efficient. The text occupies very few amount of RAM and because the repeating pattern it can be compressed further.

Even if the description is formulated on a high abstraction layer, its possible to use these information to play the game with an Artificial intelligence. All what is needed are a list of rules for determining what to do in each situation. These rules are not applied to the graphical videogame at 800x600 Pixel resolution but the rules are applied to the text box.