Hey Eben!! I would love that too. I'm still working on it and I am very not proud about how long it's taken!
Shortly after this post, I had an extremely generous person offer to translate LIFELIKE into Italian, and later, an extremely generous friend offered to translate it into Latam Spanish. I took them both up and have been working hard refactoring LIFELIKE to acommodate multiple languages since. (Alongside adding a lot of QOL that people have been asking for, including native controller support.) I haven't shared too much because it's embarrassing how long it's taken me and there's not much interesting to share when I'm just rewriting code.
It really means a lot to me that you're still thinking about LIFELIKE! It is very much alive and I will be in touch when Track 2 is out!!