How do I make a menu with sprites, using a keyboard & controller.

This is what I have as of right now, but how would I make the purple box move up and down, in order to select the options, as-well as open other menus? I'm a beginner, and am trying to create an RPG.

Thank you so much for the response! I'm going to attempt this now.

(I'm actually not an artist, it's me and an artist attempting to create a game, we started with RPGMaker, but then realized the limitations)

In a simple form

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fc3LYEXYECXT7UvlovJHht6UXQJDT__F/view?usp=sharing

If you're new to Construct, it's probably worth looking through the example projects available on the Start Page, and the tutorials section.

I put together a tutorial for keyboard controlled menus a little while ago for example.

There are different approaches I guess but because it must also relate to a selection I would use a global variable for a position so it could be 0, 1 or 2. When you press down it adds 1 to variable, when you press up it subtracts 1 from variable, and another check would ensure it doesn't go below 0 or above 2.

Then you could relate the variable to the position and also the menu to go to. If variable=0, set Y position so it is over NEW GAME, if var=1, set Y position so it is over CONTINUE etc.

Then for going to next level you can say on enter button pressed, if variable = 0, start new game, if =1 load game, if =2 load options layout etc.

An RPG is a big task though, maybe it's worth asking for help in a team assuming you are an artist. Good luck!

I've been trying to figure it out for a while now, and still can't, could you explain it in a little more detail?