Description
Hiya!
As the short introduction above suggests, we're the ilo sama RAIL team, and the three of us work on many different types of mods for TSW, be it enhancement packs, repaints, sound mods, routes, locos, or any other things. As we're a rather small team with lives outside of TSW, be it in university or college, we might not always be able to invest our time into our railway-related projects, but we will always try our best to create the most accurate experiences with our mods.
Proudly Queer
ilo sama is queer-owned and queer-operated, and we are proud of that, all year around. We aim to provide a safe space to any LGBTQIA+ folk interested in TSW modding and, contrary to some other groups, enforce a zero-tolerance policy on discrimination based on identity. We are more than happy to revoke usage rights to our assets or remove contributors from the group if the necessity should arise.
Offended by this? Move on and don't use any of our stuff x3 🏳️🌈
The Name
During the very early days of this group, back when we used to work on a Roblox train simulator, the founders called their then new group "interRail", short "iR". Well, if you've been in the european railway sphere for a bit, you might notice a certain name conflict there. Yeah, the silly people who founded the group didn't check whether the name was already in use and only found out months later, when everything they had worked on already included said name. Very silly.
In early 2024, it was finally decided to rename the group. Though, what would the new name be? We wanted to keep the "iR" abbreviation, so we already had some tight requirements. Months earlier, Nagi had picked up the conlang Toki Pona, which led her to decide that the name would be in that language. Fast forward a few weeks, and we landed on our current name. "ilo sama" can be interpreted as something along the lines of "look-alike machines" (properly translating it is quite difficult), and that's basically what we're trying to achive - look-alike and feel-alike, or realistic implementations of machines, trains, and everything around that.
Now, we had to refer to the railway for this train simulator gig, so we just slapped a "RAIL" onto it, to conserve the "R" in the "iR" abbreviation. The business handling any commercial work (e.g. the "Einziganders" livery for the Expert BR 101 DLC) is called "ilo sama Softwareentwicklung", if you're curious.
The iR Team
Hannah Hermine
The ✨back-end✨, but also the developer behind many repaints of ours
Prototype001
Our part-time hostage :3
Nagiphaaa
The head of our team, artist & developer of many things, be it front-end or back-end
FAQ
Are you supposed to scream the "RAIL" part of the name?
Unless you don't want to wake up anyone, sure, why not.
How can I join the iR team?
In case you want to join us in our modding adventure, reach out to Nagi with some cool stuff you've done so far and we'll take it from there :)
(For more specifics on contacting us see below)
Contact
Did you find an issue, see some room for improvement or want to reach out to us for other reasons? You can do so by pinging one of our team on the TSC Discord, by leaving a comment on the respective mod page, by creating an issue on the respective GitHub repositiry (if available), or reaching out via the DTG forums. We tend be quicker on Discord, so we would prefer you to reach out via that. :)
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Now, enjoy our content and see you soon!
~ The iR Team