Beat 'em up style 8 direction movement

Hello,

I am relatively new to Construct 2, and I am interested in creating a beat 'em up game that resembles one of my favourite NES games:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gl1vWsdyBU

However, I am clueless about two thing:

• How do I implement jumping, while using an 8 directional style movement (as seen in the video)
• How do I make objects disappear behind other objects that are closer to the bottom of the screen

Please reply if you know anything that could help me. Thank you in advance!

this is kind of a step in the direction you want but very basic and would need some tweaks to be a full fledged game.

http://www.scirra.com/forum/topic62057.html

Thanks for the help, I'll check this out in a minute. I'll post if I get to anywhere.