Quote Originally Posted by Eric View Post
Will going back or replaying the locations (without selection) count as revisiting? Or should the locations be player-selectable to count for a revisit?
Absolutely. You can do either, however to keep the world open and explorable, you'd have to have distinct locations within that world so they would be best to define them rather than leaving it up to the judges have to count them. As the rules state, they must be all distinct with their own visual style. So in the case of Castlevania 2 style play for example, you'd have to create 3 distinct looking areas or locations.

Example 1) You have a forrest, a village and a cave for example. You labeled each by having some text showing above when you arrived in each area.

Example 2) You have 3 different looking cities or towns, but the path connecting each is all forest or just something common to each. Again when you got to the town or cities a text label above or a city/town sign at the entrance showed that you were at it.

The idea is to define 3 locations which each have their different visual theme and figure out how to travel to/from each. How you go about it was left open so long as you have at least 3 locations minimum.