Here’s a handful of links to indie coverage across the web, today’s collection includes Wolfire Games chatting about Overgrowth, Tommy Refenes chatting and getting his game pulled from the App Store, and the story behind how Clover dev Binary Tweed got the name.

Bunny Brawler: Wolfire Talk Overgrowth (RPS)
“It’s time to talk about cute animals kicking each other to death. We haven’t covered upcoming indie action game Overgrowth much on RPS, which is a sad side-effect of its much-adored precursor Lugaru arriving before the Hivemind had coalesced into being. Let’s correct that now.”

Machinarium Creator Working On Fantasy Puppet Film (GSW)
“As you’ll see in this trailer, Machinarium creator and Amanita Design founder Jakub Dvorský’s talents aren’t limited to game development.”

GDC 2010: No More Giggles (TIGSource)
“A week after Tommy Refenes (Super Meat Boy) declared the Apple App Store to be the Tiger Electronics handheld of this generation (part of the Indie Game Maker Rant session), Apple has removed his zit-popping game Zits & Giggles from the App Store.”

Announcement: Nordic Game Indie Night, Presenters (Indie Games)
“The Nordic Game Indie Night is a one-day event that is held on the eve of the Nordic Game 2010 Conference, which runs from the 28th to 30th of April in Slagthuset, Malmö, Sweden. The event kicks off with a two-hour long presentation by developers, with Jonatan “cactus” Söderström and Nicklas “Nifflas” Nygren already confirmed as speakers for the evening.”

What’s In A Name: Binary Tweed (Joystiq)
“Every once in a while, we bring you the story of how a developer or publisher settled on the name for their company. Today we bring you the harrowing tale of Binary Tweed, the developer behind Clover: A Curious Tale.”

Mega-mod site and soon to be digital distributor ModDB have announced the winners of this year’s Mod of the Year Awards, with three indie notables taking home some metaphorical hardware.

Editor’s picks included AAAAA! A Reckless Disregard for Gravity taking Best Indie Game, with Overgrowth garnering the most votes for Best Upcoming Indie. Impressively, Natural Selection 2 grabbed the player’s choice (open voting) Indie Game of the Year award despite the fact that the game is yet to be released.

What’s clear about the awards, regardless if it’s an editor pick or a player’s choice, is that creative art direction and/or higher end graphics appear to be a theme among the winners. Congrats to all the indie devs and mod teams on the recognition of their excellent work.

Earlier this month, we mentioned the Organic Indie Preorder Pack; a pre-order bundle for Unknown Worlds’ Natural Selection 2 Special Edition and developer Wolfire Games’ Overgrowth that essentially discounted the titles into a buy one, get one free deal. Well apparently things went better than expected as Wolfire has released some info about the sale.

The dev notes that the sale achieved better results than expected, with more pre-orders sold during the sale week than in the entirety of the previous year. With no digital distributor involved, all of the proceeds were split evenly between Wolfire and Unknown Worlds.

Sales for the bundle were steady throughout the promotion and spiked as the offer drew to a close. The dev reports that 1,658 packs were sold, totaling “almost exactly one year’s worth of preorder revenue, in a single week.” In a bit of a surprise, the bundle didn’t have a negative effect on standard preorders, which were described as significantly up; Valve has pointed to this interesting trend in the past for certain game and bundle sales on Steam as well.

[Wolfire Games]