[watsisname]

On another note: when I move, distances should contract, so shouldn't you move "quicker" (the world look smaller) as you go?

Aye, it does show length contraction (and time dilation, too), but they are not as apparent as the Doppler or searchlight effects until you get to much higher fractions of c.  The world doesn't exactly look 'smaller' with length contraction because aberration brings more of it into view and concentrates things toward the center.  That's why objects seem to suddenly get farther away as you accelerate, and things behind your field of vision are brought into view.  The aberration effect is best seen if you accelerate sideways.

Time dilation was very hard for me to notice until I had at least 90 orbs, and compared the speed at which the villagers were moving when I was going right at them vs. going directly away.  Of course, with such high Doppler shift they become invisible when you move away from them, so I had to look at their silhouettes against the giant glowing mushrooms.

Once you collect the 100th orb your speed goes muuuch closer to c and the game only renders the Lorentz transformations.  The length contraction is very obvious at that point -- once you accelerate to full running speed you'll clear the map almost immediately.  Wheeeeeeeee!

[Phantom Hoover]

Uh, moving directly towards/away from a villager will also speed or slow their apparent movement due to light lag; to only see the Lorenz dilation I think you'd have to move sideways. Or better still, have a clock somewhere in the map.

[jr2]

Will have to try this out. 

[watsisname]

@Phantom
Whoops, you're right.  Time dilation is independent of the direction of motion; I was speaking of light lag.

[Astronomiya]

You can't actually see Lorentz contraction, anyway, due to those same light travel time effects.  If you look at the distance between the two legs of those gate thingies as you zoom past, you'll notice that it never changes no matter how fast you're going.  What you get instead is rotation, distortion, and a change in position due to the aberration of light.  Objects ahead of you appear to elongate, while objects behind you appear to contract (this is why everything seems to get farther away as you accelerate forward, but much closer if you look behind you after gathering the 100th orb).

[Aardwolf]

I got stuck in a fence

[Davros]

Dont you know light travels in pickets