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September 9th 2026: Retirement of Cartagena and BlueMax on Legacy
Thanks to all the Beta Testers, both Cartagena and Blue Max are ready to go fully live on the Modern site.
Sometime this weekend, you will no longer be able to create new Cartagena games on this site and will be redirected to the new site.
Shortly thereafter, the same will occur for BlueMax.
All games currently in progress will continue to be available. In a few weeks, all the statistics will move as well.
Very soon I'll also stop allowing new posts in the Legacy Forum. The new Forums are where I look these days.
Wooden Ships & Iron Men continues to work its way through some Alpha testing and will be up on Beta soon. Once it's fully debugged, it will move over as well. At that time, this site will no longer be the main site for YouPlayIt and the modern version will become primary.
If you haven't made your way over to the Modern site, please do so now. If you have any questions, thats the place to ask them. I welcome all constructive feedback about the new site.
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Electro
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July 5th 2026: Thank You Beta Testers! Keep it up!
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Thank you Beta Testers! I've spotted more bugs, design issues, and lots of improvement opportunities in the past few days than I could ever catch on my own!
Please continue!!!
As a result of your testing and feedback, I've made several internal improvements as well as a number of UI changes.
One note: Please don't join a game if you can't post a move more than once or twice a week. I don't need you glued to your screen, but I've started to force automove slow players. Just while we are in testing phase.
Another note: If you get a strange code error, wait a min, refresh your screen, and try again. I'm pushing new code all the time.
Thank you!
Have Fun!
Electro
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June 19th 2026: Go For It
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Plenty of ongoing work. All constructive feedback welcome!
Its BETA.
Still tweaking the UI and I'm not happy with the 3D walls, but I'm also starting on BlueMax now.
Have Fun!
Electro
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June 4th 2026: Much Work Done!
A lot of progress has been made on what I'm internally calling YouPlayItModern.
Cartegena is up and running and is playable. Art is not complete and I still tuning a LOT of items, but all the base code is in place. The menu is not what I want yet at all either. But, I'll be asking for beta testers very soon!
This forum is not the greatest place to post images. So if you go to the Facebook page, you can see whats been done as of a few days ago. I'm not going to post anymore until I get the actual artwork done. Not copying current artwork, using my own to avoid THAT issue.
So, take a look when you can. Remember, this is setting the stage for the new BlueMax and WS&IM. the 3D/2D perspectives, menus, automovers, etc. Check it out.
If you are not a FB user (and I TOTALLY understand that) then I'll get a link for you to look at eventually. Or, you can just login when its ready.
Have Fun!
Electro
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May 23th 2026: YouPlayIt Modernization
I’ve been pondering the enhancement and bug list and the best way to approach them. This is what I'm thinking we'll do.
YouPlayIt is going to be rebuilt, gradually, over the next while (months and years). The current site (the one you use at youplayit.net) keeps running unchanged while a new version comes together alongside it at beta.youplayit.net. The new version works well on phones and tablets, looks good on desktop, and is built to support new game features that the current site just can't handle.
The rebuild happens one game at a time. Cartagena is first because it's the simplest, then Blue Max, Wooden Ships & Iron Men, and then Gonzaga. VampiRing and Viva il Re will only migrate if the work becomes simple enough to justify; they may stay on the current site indefinitely.
When a game is released in the new system, you can play it on phone or desktop in the new version. Your account, your in-progress games, your league standings, your forum posts: all the same. The current site continues to offer that game for a short overlap period, then sunsets. No game data is lost.
Game logic (the rules, the move processing, the scoring) doesn't change. The new version starts by using the existing site's game logic underneath a new interface, then later replaces that logic with a modern equivalent that behaves identically. Bug fixes and some enhancements will happen simultaneously, but bottom line is that your games will play the same.
This is a major platform replacement. The site today is nearly unusable on a phone or tablet, and that’s not acceptable today. It will be fully mobile capable but keep a great desktop interface. Most importantly, the new platform modernization opens the door to major feature work that the current renderer can't reasonably support (altitude, coastlines, dynamic maps, escort and balloon-busting missions with dynamic BlueMax maps, 3D rendering, campaign modes etc.).
You don't have to do anything. When the games you play are ready in the new system, you'll be invited over to try it. You can keep using the old site until that game's shakedown period ends.
The forum, chat, leagues, and other features arrive alongside the first game and will be available throughout.
When the new system is ready for general use across all migrated games, beta.youplayit.net will move to youplayit.net and the rebuild will be complete.
Have Fun!
Electro
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