Carl Sagan wrote a design doc for a video game based on his work

I recently spent some time trying to turn a 2D simulation of Special Relativity into a game:

https://github.com/blevinstein/SRAsteroids

To see what it looks like, you can check out this youtube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hSCz7tRl1s

I wrote an engine that modeled object positions as "timelines", where position varies with time, and demonstrated the basic relativistic effects (length contraction, time dilation, and frequency shifting).

Unfortunately, I never really figured out how to turn these into actual game mechanics.