There is a new project to create a Civilization like game, but in a true 3D world. The development blog is available at:

http://members.optusnet.com.au/hotw

Current working title is "History of the World", but it will change in the future. The development blog gives everyone an opportunity to witness the creation of the game, the decisions, the compromises, the prototypes.

Features:
- 3D spherical world.
- hexagon tiles
- strategy phase and action phase. Rotate/zoom/pan around battles.
- uses OpenGL 3D API
- for Windows and BeOS/Zeta/Haiku Operating systems

Enjoy.

PS - sorry for beating my own drum :)

What is Zeta?

Apparently an operating system. I'm actually surprised a company other than MS and Apple can turn up a profit by selling an operating system.

Some more eye candy from the up and coming game
http://members.optusnet.com.au/hotw/images/2005_07_07.jpg

Well, I'm about to add unit order indicators on the map. What I thought of doing was implementing an arching moving arrow from the current unit tile to the destination unit tile. Is there a better way of indicating what the current orders are?