Keyboard control and sprites

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I want to make a sample game, overhead view (as in old SNES RPGs) where you control a character who can walk in 8 directions, with sprites for left, right, up and down both walking and standing. I can either make the sprites or use a sheet from RPG Maker, that's the easy part. But I basically want to know how to make him move and change the sprites. Do I make sense at all?