Hungry potato
Description:
In 'Hungry Potato', you play as a lovable potato with an insatiable appetite. Your mission is to help the famished spud capture falling food while evading many pesky enemies.

Controls:

Left Arrow: Move Left
Right Arrow: Move Right
X Key: Jump
Z Key: Turn onoff music

Features:

Several Enemies: You encounter a variety of critters which are progressively more challenging to dodge.
Hunger Berserk: If the hunger grows over a threshold, the potato goes into a hungry frenzy, allowing it to devour all enemies and invulnerability at the cost of a quickly decreasing score.
Boss fight: At the end of level 25, a boss - Mr Squirrel- stops the potato on its journey.

Background:
This is my first larger project in Pico-8. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!
-- update 2023-07-26

fix issues where player would die in menu, before the game would start
thanks @phil for feedback

Turn onoff music with Z-key
improve visibility of text for level and points

-- update 2023-07-27

added difficulty options (default, easy)

License: None (Free)