Escapade!
An interactive fiction by Juhana Leinonen (2008) - the Inform 7 source text
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Chapter I - Disabling compass directions
Going north is compass-going.
Going south is compass-going.
Going east is compass-going.
Going west is compass-going.
Going northwest is compass-going.
Going northeast is compass-going.
Going southwest is compass-going.
Going southeast is compass-going.
Instead of compass-going:
say "You have absolutely no sense of compass directions in here. Even if you knew where [noun] was, going that way would mean hitting either a stone wall or the metal door."
Instead of examining a direction when the noun is not inside and the noun is not outside and the noun is not up and the noun is not down:
try going north. [this will fire the rule above.]
Before exiting:
say "Yes, that would be the general idea. You just have to be a bit more specific." instead.
Before going up:
try jumping instead.