Hello,
I just registered.
I played this game between 1997-2000 on a Win 98 machine
I had it on a CD from a magazine and it was a demo.
About the game:
It looked like the planet earth (a sphere) and you could spin it around. Behind it was a blue sky. The planet has water and earth (well obiously).
The map/earth was not very large. The buildings were tall and pointy. I don't remember much about the people but there were shamans. With the shamans you could rise the earth from underneath the water, to create crossings, quick sands that had small bamboos inside and the enemy citizens often just walked and died (that lasted for a short period of time), you could create meteor rain, earthquakes and hurricanes to destroy the enemy and their houses.
the game was taking place in the past.Nothing contemporary except the houses that looked like they came out from an animation horror movie (not sure)
Your point of view is not far from the map.
The name of the file was something like dworld.exe
I recently found the game through google images on a foreign website but I did not save it
I tried to search for it now, but Google changed their image policy and the image nor the website appear anymore.
I hope that you will be able to help me find it.