I hope you will forgive my failure to post yesterday as it was Thanksgiving.
I've made decent headway with Lua, and while I'm finally in a steady, albeit inefficient, rhythm, it's frustrating to find a foothold. I've mapped out a few things as I mentioned when I played the game out in discussion, but it's really just divided into two general sub-projects: the GUI and database management. Since it's a word game, there's a ton of pattern matching and string manipulation involved, so at some point I will need to build a tool to make database management easier, and while that's something I have the most comfort with, I'm going to focus my efforts on GUI because that's my area of greatest confusion.
I have to concede I am not enjoying this and that is the major hurdle in my lack of progress. I am relatively confident in the design process, but now that it's MY project and not a specification I've been handed, I have to be more rigorous than ever before. The additional time investment with learning and coding and scrutinizing each line for errors is mind-numbing.
Today's Lucky Numbers:
229, 80, 90, 49, 213, 8