We've chosen to use Lazarus!
After looking around at several IDEs, languages, and platforms, I've decided upon using Lazarus + Free Pascal. I've been using an old Delphi for many years (and completed projects using it), so Lazarus offers a fairly smooth transition to a more modern IDE (compared to Delphi 2 and 6). It's cross-platform too, working on Linux, Mac, and Windows - my main OSs are Windows and Mac.
I'm not choosing Lazarus simply because it's free and a comfortable transition. I've looked at Java (+JMonkey, etc), JavaScript+HTML Canvas, conventional C/C++ + SDL + GLUT and other libraries, C# + OGRE, C# + XNA, Delphi + GL Scene, and others that I can't remember. I think my best chances are with Lazarus, assuming the compiler generates fast enough code, the IDE is stable enough, and the common APIs are well-supported.
Coding progress
At this point in coding, we've prepared about five units, to various stages of completion. Starting from high level, and working down to low level: Main, Game, World, Materials, and Measures. The Measures unit defines math structures, and sets up any global constants. More units (like View for graphics, Client and Server for command and state processing, Net for networking, and so on) will be added.
In World, we've coded most of the data structures for the first three abstractions for the world geometry: a function-based world, a 3D array world, and an OctTree world (more on that in the next post). We've yet to write the internal utilities and published methods that will query and manipulate the world geometry, but we'll will write a complete set for the simplest method first, and when that's working, we'll work on upgrading them, behind an abstraction switch.
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