What does Irrlicht mean?
Irrlicht is the german word for a fairy-tale creature which glows and flies, and can be found mostly in the vicinity of swamps. I think the correct english translation is “will-o’-the-wisp”. Also, the word “Irrlicht” is the composition of the two german words “irr”, meaning “mad” and “Licht”, meaning “light”. The Irrlicht Engine is being developed in Austria (country south of Germany, not Australia) and so I think ‘Irrlicht’ is a cool name, although non german speaking people may not know how to pronounce it. Because lots of people asked me how it is pronounced, I uploaded a .wav file, in which you can hear a girl saying ‘Irrlicht Engine’.
