Hide & Dance!

Designed and programmed by the founder of hap inc, Yuusaku Ishimoto, the game sees the player playing as a girl who attempts to dance in her room without being caught by her mother. Received positively by critics; GameZebo called it a "slight but hugely endearing rhythm action title". According to its official website, the game has been downloaded over 2.5 million times on mobile devices.

• Title — Hide & Dance! • Developer — hap inc. • Publisher — * hap inc. (mobile) • Kemco (consoles) • Designer — Yuusaku Ishimoto • Programmer — Yuusaku Ishimoto • Platforms — * iOS • Android • Nintendo Switch • PlayStation 4 • Released — iOS, AndroidMarch 18, 2016Nintendo SwitchOctober 1, 2020PlayStation 4September 30, 2020November 19, 2020 • Genre — Rhythm • Modes — Single-player, multiplayer

• Illustration — The player playing as the girl while dancing to the song "Smile Girl" In Hide & Dance! main mode, players primarily play as a girl and must press buttons in accordance to the ones displayed on the screen in order to dance. While dancing, the girl's mother will occasionally enter the room and result in a game over if the player continues dancing. To avoid the game over, players must stop dancing when the mother enters the room. The game features 10 different songs the player can dance to, with each song having 3 different difficulty settings. After clearing songs, players receive in-game coins, which can be used in a gashapon machine to unlock new songs and characters to play as. The game has a multiplayer mode, which supports up to two players.

Hide & Dance! was developed by the independent Japanese video game developer hap inc., consisting solely of its founder, the Tokyo-based Yuusaku Ishimoto. Hide & Dance! has a similar art style to other hap inc. games. The game's characters are modelled after Ishimoto's childhood and appear in many other hap inc. titles, most notably Mom Hid My Game!. The game was released on iOS and Android devices on March 18, 2018. Some of the game's characters were released as stickers for use in messaging systems on iOS devices by the Line Corporation in December 2019. The game's Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 ports were localized and published by Kemco, who had previously ported hap inc.'s prior title, Mom Hid My Game!, to the same consoles. The ports were first unveiled by Kemco at the 2020 Tokyo Game Show. The PlayStation 4 port was released on September 30, 2020, in Japan, with a worldwide release following on November 19. The Nintendo Switch port was released worldwide on October 1.