Announced and highlighted back here in September , LEd is a modern open source level editor from the previous development lead on Dead Cells. Taking all that they learned actually creating and working on games, LEd is their attempt to make a modern cross-platform and free level editor for everyone.

Looks like they've started getting their Linux support into better shape too, with the 0.4.0 release that went out recently having their first attempt at a standalone Linux build with help from the community. This is why open source is great, anyone can get involved.

Pictured - LEd running on Linux with an included example.

Just some of the features it offers:

• Easy to use : modern UI with a strong focus on ease-of-use and quality-of-life features.
• Universal and agnostic : compatible with all languages (not only Haxe) and game frameworks in the world
• JSON : easy to parse file format for any game-engine out there (I promise it’s actually really easy). Haxe isn’t required.
• Customizable layers : Integer grid layers, Tile layers and Entity layers support
• Auto-layers : paint your collision map and see the grass, textures and all the small details being drawn automatically !
• Entities : fully customizable Entity with custom properties (ex: you can have a “Mob” entity, with a “hitPoints” field, which is an Integer limited to [0,10] bounds).
• Enums : you can define an enumeration (ex: an “ItemType” enum with “Money”, “Ammo”, “Gun” values) and use this enum in your entity custom fields.
• External enums : enums can be imported and synced directly from Haxe source code files (HX file)!
• HTML5 : LEd is built around modern web standards.

The 0.4.0 release also brings in plenty of new features, upgrades and fixes too. It's advancing pretty quickly based on feedback from people testing it. There's new hotkeys, the ability to easily select any element, you can now quickly duplicate any element in the level, the JSON you get is now at least 40% smaller thanks to optimizations and the list goes on.

If you're after a simple and modern level editor, be sure to take a look at LEd. See more about it on the website and GitHub .

Okay, hear me out. You want to keep an eye on your system for things like RAM use, disk space, processor load and more…but you want something a tiny bit flashy that's still simple enough to run in a terminal window? You need to try out bpytop.

It's a fully featured resource monitor with a "game inspired menu system" and it's genuinely great, I've fallen just a little bit in love with it having it open on my second monitor to keep me informed of how my system is doing. Just look at how gosh-darn awesome it looks:

Thanks to the process selection feature, you can also use it to send "SIGTERM, SIGKILL, SIGINT" to individual processes if you need to get rid of them or if they're stuck. I can see this being incredibly useful. It does practically everything you need and it looks good while doing so.

bpytop is actually a port to Python of another project named bashtop, with the creator suggesting people move on over to bpytop due to it being faster, less resource hungry, mouse support, graphs for memory consumption and more new advanced features.

Their "game inspired" menu is a nice bit of fluff too, giving you a quick and easy way to adjust various settings - very much like you actually would find in a game.

The developer appears to have plans to expand it too with GPU support for temperatures and load, options for resizing all boxes, CPU and mem stats for docker containers (if possible) and the usual optimizations.

As a bit of icing on the cake, you can theme it too.

Check bpytop out on GitHub .

Need to get something done and remove distractions? Virtual Cottage is a real sweet idea for a screen-saver style application that gives you tunes and a timer.

It reminded me instantly of Kind Words , the beautiful little game about writing letters to random people in a tiny little room. Virtual Cottage echos that same style and feeling. You get a visually pleasing little room, some lovely music and you can set a timer with a subject to focus on and let your mind melt away as you do it and listen to the great beats.

Why was it made? On the itch page, the developer mentioned they built it for themselves to "help me get things done again" with a goal to have "a super simple desktop app (so that I'm not even tempted to open the browser)" and so they've shared it with everyone. I thought it was a beautiful idea, maybe you will too.

Also, it's made with Godot Engine , so that's awesome too.

You can grab it free on itch.io and if you like the idea you can donate there too.

Que vous travailliez en open-space ou en télétravail, vous avez sans doute déjà été amenés à utiliser Slack , cette plateforme de discussion instantanée conçue pour faciliter les échanges au sein d’une entreprise. Lancée en 2013, cette dernière permet de créer des canaux de discussion internes entre les différents membres d’une même organisation, qui peuvent ainsi s’envoyer des messages privés ou échanger via des conversations de groupe. Si jusqu’à présent, il n’était pas possible pour deux personnes appartenant à des entreprises différentes de communiquer via la plateforme, les choses devraient changer d’ici le début de l’année prochaine, a annoncé la plateforme.

En effet, la nouvelle fonctionnalité Slack Connect imaginée par la plateforme devrait être lancée dès le début de l’année 2021. Dans les faits, cette dernière permettra d’échanger avec d’autres entreprises sans avoir à passer par un service de messagerie tiers. Grâce à un simple lien URL, n’importe qui pourra ainsi vous envoyer un DM, explique le PDG de Slack Stewart Butterfield dans une interview pour le site The Verge . “Vous pourrez mettre un lien sur votre profil Twitter ou un code QR sur votre carte de visite que les gens utiliseront pour communiquer avec vous” . Un moyen de faciliter les échanges interentreprises, qui pourrait, à terme, remplacer les simples emails professionnels , espère Stewart Butterfield. En plus de cette intéressante nouveauté, l’entreprise de ce dernier devrait aussi bientôt permettre la publication de “ stories ” calquées sur le modèle de Snapchat ou Instagram, et qui permettraient de tenir des comptes rendus professionnels de manière plus simple et naturelle. Cette année, la pandémie et le confinement ont rendu pour beaucoup le télétravail obligatoire, forçant les salariés à s’adapter à de nouveaux modes de communication. Des répercussions que Slack entend bien mettre à profit à l’avenir, en proposant de nouvelles fonctionnalités destinées à simplifier la communication entre professionnels.

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Avoir les paroles d’une chanson qui tournent en boucle dans le cerveau sans connaître le titre ou l’artiste de ladite chanson peut être une situation pour le moins désagréable. Spotify a donc décidé de remédier au problème avec une fonction qui permet de trouver un titre en entrant les paroles que vous avez éventuellement retenues. Disponible sur les systèmes iOS et Android, cette recherche est en fait assez simple. Il suffit de taper les paroles dans la barre de recherche pour consulter la base de données de Spotify et voir toutes les chansons qui contiennent ces mots.

My team just shipped something on iOS and Android –

now you can find songs by lyrics on Spotify

Give it a try pic.twitter.com/bOs4Ob9O84

— Lina (@linafab) October 5, 2020

Il est effet souvent plus facile de retenir un refrain que le titre d’une chanson. Il faudra toutefois être familier avec l’anglais et avoir une bonne mémoire. Cette recherche sera évidemment inutile pour les musiques dénuées de paroles. À noter que Spotify est en retard par rapport à Apple Music, qui propose cette fonctionnalité depuis 2018. Fort d’un catalogue de plus de 60 millions de titres, le service suédois de streaming musical a bénéficié d’une autre mise à jour importante récemment. En effet, Spotify a introduit des paroles en temps réel sur 26 marchés en juin, en s’appuyant sur la plateforme de partage de paroles Musixmatch. Là encore, il avait couru derrière Apple Music qui proposait cette fonction avant lui. Bref, Spotify a tout intérêt à proposer un maximum de fonctionnalités s’il veut rester leader et ne pas se faire avaler par la concurrence.

Pour connaître les points forts des différents services, vous pouvez consulter notre comparatif des services de streaming audio

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Disponible depuis juillet dernier en France, le Play Pass de Google est souvent présenté comme une réponse à Apple Arcade. Mais contrairement au service d’Apple, l’abonnement de Google pour les appareils Android offre un accès à des applications, en plus de jeux. 500 environ sont au rendez-vous, dont Sonic, Monument Valley, Golf Peaks, Teslagrad, Forgotton Anne, etc.

500 jeux et apps à volonté

Google ajoute au catalogue Play Pass des nouveautés chaque mois, qui sont exemptes de publicité, d’achats intégrés et évidemment de paiement au téléchargement. Une affaire d’autant intéressante que la formule revient à 4,99 € par mois, ou encore 29,99 € par an. L’accès à la sélection d’apps peut être partagé avec cinq membres de la famille pour le même prix. Un essai gratuit est aussi proposé pour se faire une idée de l’offre.

Jusqu’à présent, le service était vendu en France donc, mais aussi en Espagne, en Allemagne, en Irlande, au Royaume-Uni, en Italie, en Australie, en Nouvelle-Zélande ainsi qu’aux États-Unis où il est disponible depuis plus longtemps. Google étend son Play Pass à 24 pays supplémentaires tous situés en Europe.

More fun in more places! Google Play Pass is now available in 24 new countries! Say "yes" to hundreds of games and "no" to ads & in-app purchases. Get started: https://t.co/H6GOFinJrI #PlayPass pic.twitter.com/HffqPMmBtn

— Google Play (@GooglePlay) October 1, 2020

Sans entrer dans les détails, sachez que la Belgique, les Pays-Bas, le Liechtenstein, le Luxembourg, le Portugal ou encore la Roumanie sont compris dans la liste. De quoi populariser un peu plus un service abordable pour lequel Google devrait faire un peu plus de publicité.

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Free and open source video recording and live streaming software OBS Studio version 26.0 is out now.

Pretty much all you need to get going with video content, OBS Studio being cross-platform and open source opened up a lot of options for Linux users when it arrived a few years ago. It's been great to see it flourish.

One of the bigger additions in this release is a new Noise Suppression filter with RNNoise. It should offer much better noise suppression than the original method. The same special tech that's used in Cadmus and NoiseTorch which really does work quite nicely. This is going to be a really great addition for people who want to do video content with OBS but have more background noises. I also quite like the new Source Toolbar above the Sources list, giving you quicker access to switch things around. This toolbar also has media controls for when you're playing other media.

Another currently Windows-only feature was added with support for a "Virtual Camera", which allows you to use the OBS output as a camera in other apps. They said support for other operating systems will be added when they're ready.

On top of new features, here's the notable Linux-specific fixes that came with OBS Studio 26.0:

• Linux: Fixed an issue where the browser source could crash when browsing files
• Linux: Fixed an issue with “always on top” sometimes not working with projectors
• Linux: Fixed an issue where cameras using V4L2 would not respond correctly to pan/tilt controls
• Linux: Fixed an issue where a user’s preferred language could not be detected correctly
• Fixed camera controls on Linux video devices not working

Plenty of other improvements came with it, full release notes here .

For Linux you can grab it as a Snap package , which comes pre-loaded with tons of useful extras. Also available as a Flatpak package on Flathub, otherwise head here for other distro downloads.

Since the official Discord client doesn't currently support the Overlay on Linux, it's up to the community and another has been released named Discover. Not to be confused with the KDE application store, which is also named Discover.

The Discover overlay for Discord was created by the same people as the last one we wrote about . This time, it's a little different. They're not relying on Discord's StreamKit and it instead interacts with the Discord client directly. This means it could expand to support other chat applications too in future perhaps, plus they said it should also be "lighter on system resources and less hack-and-slash included than discord-overlay".

The initial release is out now and sure enough, it works fine. Load it up, join a chat room somewhere and it will display people on your screen.

Pictured: quick example of it in action.

Right now it's limited but functional enough and it's a nice start. A little UI to swap which monitor it's on and the position, as well as tweak the colouring. Very useful. They do have plans to support text chat, notifications and they're open to suggestions on whatever else it needs to do.

I would definitely pick a better name though to prevent some confusion.

Find Discover for Linux Discord on GitHub .

LEd is a very interesting project to follow for both game developers and people looking to get into it, a new free level editor with a firm aim on being user friendly.

What makes it quite interesting, is that it's built by a developer who has been part of a successful indie team. Sébastien Bénard was the lead on Dead Cells, one of my absolute favourite pixel-art platformers and it's a very popular game. LEd is based on their experience creating games, and their goal is to create a modern level editor for everyone.

Feature Highlight:

• Easy to use : modern UI with a strong focus on ease-of-use and quality-of-life features.
• Universal and agnostic : compatible with all languages (not only Haxe) and game frameworks in the world
• JSON : easy to parse file format for any game-engine out there (I promise it’s actually really easy). Haxe isn’t required.
• Customizable layers : Integer grid layers, Tile layers and Entity layers support
• Auto-layers : paint your collision map and see the grass, textures and all the small details being drawn automatically !
• Entities : fully customizable Entity with custom properties (ex: you can have a “Mob” entity, with a “hitPoints” field, which is an Integer limited to [0,10] bounds).
• Enums : you can define an enumeration (ex: an “ItemType” enum with “Money”, “Ammo”, “Gun” values) and use this enum in your entity custom fields.
• External enums : enums can be imported and synced directly from Haxe source code files (HX file)!
• HTML5 : LEd is built around modern web standards.
• LEd loves Haxe : a powerful Haxe API which gives you access to fully typed values from your levels. It avoids mistakes like mistyping, renaming or removals: you see errors during compilation, not at runtime.

After I saw the description mentioned it was open source but it didn't have a license, I opened a ticket with the developer who very promptly sorted it and it's now under the MIT license! That might be the most pleasant interaction I've had when querying that sort of thing. Additionally, they have an open ticket tagged as "help wanted" to sort a proper Linux build out so if you know Haxe it might be a fun project for you to help with. I've already jumped in to let them know of some issues that are currently being worked through.

You can see the website here and find the code on GitHub .

If you're after more like this, do check out Tilekit too .