![]() In Fairytale Fights, attacks are controlled with one control stick while the other handles movement, but the only real thought involved in executing an attack will be the direction you do it in. It’s easy to accept them as the character skins they are, but this is also a missed opportunity in a game that desperately needs something to give its fighting an interesting edge. Unfortunately, despite having four playable characters with very different origins, there’s no real difference between them. A spark of inspiration briefly strikes when the player has to dodge princess-hungry suitors in a race and a twisting palace maze requires some puzzle solving, but most of the time areas are pretty much just designed only to house the game’s bloody yet unfortunately bland battles.įairytale Fights is definitely a hack-and-slash action game through and through, almost the entire experience focusing on the straightforward bloody slaying of any enemy who gets in your chosen character’s paths. Some of the locations you visit on your journey find their roots in fairy tales as well, the witch from Hansel and Gretel building a candy castle and the giants from Jack’s story having their large house serve up some interesting level set pieces, but at the same time the game spends a lot of time with the heroes fighting lumberjacks and tends to wear out areas by making them too long, the overall experience covering very few distinctly different environments. They do eventually pursue another goal of trying to rescue princesses, their adventures throughout the game told with almost no words but a lot of bloodshed in the ultimate inverse of the typical trimming down and softening of the older and darker fairy tales. ![]() ![]() In this land of fairy tales though, to not have fame comes with the risk of disappearance, so the four set off to try and find a new claim to fame, a task that apparently involves spending half the game trying to get back the porridge back for the bears from the Goldilocks story. Little Red Riding Hood finds the wolf dealt with before it ever ate her grandmother, Snow White is woken up without true love’s first kiss, Jack’s spoils from his beanstalk climbing adventure are upstaged, and the Emperor from The Emperor’s New Clothes is denied the moral to his story by everyone freaking out immediately on seeing him bare naked. In a land where classic fairy tales coexist, four famous characters are denied their proper fame by the interference of the far less famous Little Tailor. The most memorable aspect of the game is certainly its concept though. ![]() ![]() The strangest thing about this hunt for this forgotten game though is that it was never a fondness for the title that inspired the search, and I certainly wouldn’t have been too beat up about it if it had taken me longer to find it. I realize now that I could have just asked my friend what the game was at some point, but the idea to ask her didn’t come until Fairytale Fights already found its way back to me. Attempts to find it again later were fruitless as the details I remembered tended to flag unrelated results on Google, especially since Alice McGee has a series of corrupted fairy tale games similar in concept that kept presenting themselves as the incorrect answer to my search. Many years ago, I played the game Fairytale Fights on a friend’s Xbox 360 but didn’t quite catch the name of it as I played. ![]()
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Tip: If you’re using a heavily customized Dock version I suggest you to perform a screenshot ( shift + cmd + 3). This will cause the menu bar to return to its factory settings. The next troubleshooting option implies a full Dock reset. Tip: This fix also works to fix a glitch that’s not allowing you to add or remove apps from Dock. Duplicate the file and save it on your Desktop.Copy/paste this string: ~/Library/Preferences/ and click Go.Open Finder and click on Go, available in the top menu bar.In case, the outcome is not as expected you can revert and proceed to the next step: This implies backing up the Dock’s plist file and deleting it from the Library. Next up you delete your Dock configuration, in a reversible way. Trick: You can also use the cmd + option + D keyboard shortcut to easily hide and unhide the Dock in macOS! 4. You can do this in System Preferences -> Dock -> Automatically hide and show the Dock (Enable -> Disable). Hide / Show DockĪnother option to fix the freezing Dock is to hide and unhide in settings. Select Restart… and confirm that you want to reboot your Mac. How to: Click Apple logo in the top-left corner. If the Dock remains frozen after restarting it you can go ahead and perform a full system restart in an attempt to clear other minor glitches that could prevent the Dock from working as expected. ![]() Use the ‘x’ available in the top-left area of the Activity Monitor window.Ĭonfirm that you want to kill the process by clicking Quit or Force Quit.Open Spotlight and search for Activity Monitor.Press cmd + Space to bring up Spotlight and search for Terminal.Your first option is to re-spring the Dock app. If the macOS Dock is frozen, unresponsive or doesn’t work as expected perform the following troubleshooting steps: 1. If the problem persist you can also reset the Dock to its factory settings. Is the Dock not working on your Mac? 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![]() Return X, _categorical(y, num_classes = self.n_classes) Keras script 'Updates indexes after each epoch ' self.indexes = np.arange( len( self.list_IDs)) X, y = self._data_generation(list_IDs_temp) 'Generate one batch of data ' # Generate indexes of the batch 'Denotes the number of batches per epoch ' return int(np.floor( len( self.list_IDs) / self.batch_size)) 'Generates data for Keras ' def _init_( self, list_IDs, labels, batch_size = 32, dim =( 32, 32, 32), n_channels = 1, Each call requests a batch index between 0 and the total number of batches, where the latter is specified in the _len_ method.Ĭlass DataGenerator( keras. Now comes the part where we build up all these components together. in a 6-class problem, the third label corresponds to ) suited for classification. computations from source files) without worrying that data generation becomes a bottleneck in the training process.Īlso, please note that we used Keras' _categorical function to convert our numerical labels stored in y to a binary form (e.g. Since our code is multicore-friendly, note that you can do more complex operations instead (e.g. ![]() Return X, _categorical(y, num_classes = self.n_classes)ĭuring data generation, this code reads the NumPy array of each example from its corresponding file ID.npy. # Generate data for i, ID in enumerate(list_IDs_temp): Y = np.empty(( self.batch_size), dtype = int) ![]() X = np.empty(( self.batch_size, * self.dim, self.n_channels)) 'Generates data containing batch_size samples ' # X : (n_samples, *dim, n_channels) # Initialization We make the latter inherit the properties of so that we can leverage nice functionalities such as multiprocessing.ĭef _data_generation( self, list_IDs_temp): Now, let's go through the details of how to set the Python class DataGenerator, which will be used for real-time data feeding to your Keras model.įirst, let's write the initialization function of the class. Where data/ is assumed to be the folder containing your dataset.įinally, it is good to note that the code in this tutorial is aimed at being general and minimal, so that you can easily adapt it for your own dataset. In that case, the Python variables partition and labels look like > partitionĪlso, for the sake of modularity, we will write Keras code and customized classes in separate files, so that your folder looks like folder/ in partition a list of validation IDsĬreate a dictionary called labels where for each ID of the dataset, the associated label is given by labelsįor example, let's say that our training set contains id-1, id-2 and id-3 with respective labels 0, 1 and 2, with a validation set containing id-4 with label 1.A good way to keep track of samples and their labels is to adopt the following framework:Ĭreate a dictionary called partition where you gather: Let ID be the Python string that identifies a given sample of the dataset. Notationsīefore getting started, let's go through a few organizational tips that are particularly useful when dealing with large datasets. By the way, the following code is a good skeleton to use for your own project you can copy/paste the following pieces of code and fill the blanks accordingly. In order to do so, let's dive into a step by step recipe that builds a data generator suited for this situation. ![]() Indeed, this task may cause issues as all of the training samples may not be able to fit in memory at the same time. This article is all about changing the line loading the entire dataset at once. X, y = np.load( 'some_training_set_with_labels.npy ') Tutorial Previous situationīefore reading this article, your Keras script probably looked like this: The framework used in this tutorial is the one provided by Python's high-level package Keras, which can be used on top of a GPU installation of either TensorFlow or Theano. 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