Not so keyboard-savvy? Fear not. Apparently, David Stubbs and his team, called WiiCade, are working on enabling the Nintendo Wii's motion-controlled remote to work in simple multiplayer Flash games piped through the Wii's Internet Channel. Playing online with motion control? It's possible! Clickable Culture's Tony Walsh (CC's definitely another "blog to watch," by the way) got a little hands-on:

David demonstrated a couple of simple multi-player Flash games, both of which performed pretty well (a bit of control-lag noticeable), considering how severely the Wii's processing power is tapped--the little white console is not only running the Opera browser, but that browser is running Flash, and some sort of Java-enabled layer through which Wiimote signals are accepted and passed back into Flash. Probably I'm butchering the explanation--all I really care about is that Wiimote-controlled Flash games are now easier for anyone to create, thanks to the WiiCade team.

So it sounds like there are still strides to be made in the tech, but imagine a console-based online world that could be navigated via motion control? Something simple like Sherwood Dungeon, with its hack-and-slash swordfighting, could be a lot of fun this way!

[Via Clickable Culture]