After some time playing with Agar (the only documentation being the API and a wiki full of stubs) I’m not sure any more if we will get on. Don’t get me wrong, it seems like a fully-functional library, but its idiosyncrasies don’t mesh with my own. It has a very C-heavy syntax with raw pointers all over the shop, I prefer C++ OOP structure with my pointers wrapped up safely in safe-pointer template objects. It also wants to be an independent library, or at least the ability to hook into many different frameworks. I would like a library tightly paired with the SDL as to not have to re-work any functionality already provided to me by it.

I will be continuing with it for the mean time, hoping that my increased familiarity with it will assuage my current misgivings. Failing that, I fear I might well have to embark on a much more trepidatious task than first realised…