I just read the first half, and skimmed the second..  You may want to explore the physics option a little more..  Don't be intimidated.

It's a little bit of a learning curve, but it will really reduce the frustration you're having with the "movement" of the thrown object.

To throw it, you'll just add a force of some magnitude(number) to the object in some direction (x,y) vector.  A vector is essentially just a line that goes from 0,0 to whatever your specified x,y is(relative to whatever you're applying the force to, i.e. the thrown object is always the 0,0 part of the vector you're using for the force).  A vector and a point are represented the same, so it's confusing.

e.g.  if the object is @ 1,1 and you add a physics force with a vector of (1,0)  it will cause the object to move to the right at the speed of the (force magnitude) you applied.   A vector of (1,0.2) will give it a slight upward direction, but gravity will take over from there and bring it back down slowly, based on how much magnitude you give the force.

To handle the bounce and the slowdown, you can adjust the "bounciness" and "friction" of the object, and the objects it comes into contact with(ground,obstacles,etc.).  I'm assuming that GameMaker has physics materials as well.  These are materials that allow you to specify the bounciness or the friction that the object will have/create with other objects when they collide.  You should be able to assign these attributes (bounciness, and friction) in some way as they are key to using game physics, so if it's not physics materials that you apply to an object, then it will be somewhere else in there.

I would also rethink the moving of the whole world instead of the "thrown object".  It'll be hard to get physics working right the other way.  Just focus your "camera" or your "view" on the X(if x is left-right) position of the thrown object and whatever Y you like.  That way it always follows the thrown object and that's the only object you need to worry about moving or adding physics forces to.  Everything else should work the same, essentially.

Yeah, a simple state machine could be made with a variable to track the current "state" and a switch-case inside a main loop to "do something" when the state changes.  That's a pretty straight forward way to make it work.

Also, yeah, Unity is good to go for anybody who doesn't make more than $100,000 a year off of their games.  It's fully capable and the very few Pro-only features they have are gonna be things you'll likely never need.

21 minutes ago, Septopus said:

A vector of (1,0.2) will give it a slight upward direction

This is what I need to for flying and falling then! For sure! And the gravity pulls it in, it then would bounce 'off something' so invisible walls I imagine, In general would physics stuff eventually 'stop' ? Or would I need to tell them to 'stop' ? 

21 minutes ago, Septopus said:

assuming that GameMaker has physics materials

Yeah, there is some 'physics' stuff in there, I just gotta learn it now then Something about being able to set a room to a physics world.. I dunno. I'm happy to learn though! It's fun

22 minutes ago, Septopus said:

It'll be hard to get physics working right the other way.

This is why I was thinking physics was not the way to go because of moving the world... Perhaps you would know of how to make an infinite world then? Because I'm all good with having the object followed by camera, I learnt that stuff in setting up for an RPG, But ultimately my 'object' runs out of 'room' It doesn't necessarily disappear, it just isn't followed anymore by my camera because basically its something like this:

Room Size is the size of your world, (So i need to make this either majorly long horizontally? Would that break anything?), View is the camera, what the player sees, and Port is like my display window kind of thing. Now I know the 'meaning' of the 3 terms but I don't know the importance, Could I have like a million pixels horizontally without issues as long as its not in view yet? Or would my game wanna try loading everything in the room ?  I imagine this would be something simple and I've just overlooked it -.- guna do a ton of googling before making anything proper for the game.

21 minutes ago, Septopus said:

$100,000 a year

I'd be happy with that ?

Talk about reading an essay!  

Getting a good understanding of physics is well worth the struggle and effort. You'll appreciate this new found knowledge and understanding when you find out how many great ways you can utilize it for your games!  

7 minutes ago, CyberFlash said:

This is why I was thinking physics was not the way to go because of moving the world... Perhaps you would know of how to make an infinite world then? Because I'm all good with having the object followed by camera, I learnt that stuff in setting up for an RPG, But ultimately my 'object' runs out of 'room' It doesn't necessarily disappear, it just isn't followed anymore by my camera because basically its something like this:

2 ways I can think of.

1) make a really really long level by hand in a graphic editor/etc.... haha

2) Procedural level generation.   This is where you make smaller level segments that are just objects loaded by code to build a really really long level based on some randomness.  Which is way more fun.

7 minutes ago, CyberFlash said:

Room Size is the size of your world, (So i need to make this either majorly long horizontally? Would that break anything?), View is the camera, what the player sees, and Port is like my display window kind of thing. Now I know the 'meaning' of the 3 terms but I don't know the importance, Could I have like a million pixels horizontally without issues as long as its not in view yet? Or would my game wanna try loading everything in the room ?  I imagine this would be something simple and I've just overlooked it -.- guna do a ton of googling before making anything proper for the game.

Yeah, a LOT of that is very specific to Game Maker, so google is gonna be your friend there for sure.

7 minutes ago, CyberFlash said:

I'd be happy with that ?

Yup!

3 hours ago, Septopus said:

Procedural level generation

This is what I was originally thinking of doing... but I guess I got it wrong because I thought that meant keeping my player at the same x and having everything else scroll right to left and destroy itself when its like -100 on the x (depends on size obviously) and have it randomly spawn on the right side in a sequence or randomly chosen sequence. My issue with doing this whilst letting the player move on x is I don't have a lot of width to play with unless I do suggestion 1 which is make a really long room. I'm going to consult the docs and try to understand how the world works again. I mainly messed around with a finite predetermined space when i made stuff so yeah. Its all good though. Thanks once again for the great advice! 

3 hours ago, Rutin said:

Getting a good understanding of physics is well worth the struggle and effort.

The only thing now really is trying to decide if I should figure this out in Game Maker or just go get Unity again and learn & use that instead,

I even looked at export options and it seems fine, I just need Windows and I'm thinking maybe browser too so I don't have to people to install anything, I even think the splash screen forcing "Made with Unity" is cool these days too like saying "I'm using the pro stuff " lol 

I'm going with Unity! Just a quick look/reminder of it, I don't have to define a horizontal limit in Unity. In Game Maker i've gotta set it as a fixed size of my room and I don't know how to do the unlimited running environment thing in there after a certain point in my room but in Unity I can just make a group with Camera, player and a wall that lags behind, anything beyond the wall is deleted and things spawn to the right moving left until after wall...  Boom that should sort it

1 hour ago, CyberFlash said:

suggestion 1 which is make a really long room.

I can't say for certain how it works in Game Maker, but I'm assuming the "room" concept is more or less just the size of the "canvas" on which you can place objects.  So you could do option #2 with a large "room" and lots of smaller sections of a large level..  if that makes sense.  Again, I might be confusing Game Maker terms, but that's how it sounds so consult the docs.

1 hour ago, CyberFlash said:

The only thing now really is trying to decide if I should figure this out in Game Maker or just go get Unity again and learn & use that instead,

I'm sure Game Maker will be fine for most anything 2D, and maybe better/easier for 2D than Unity is sometimes.  Just throwing that out there.  I had some frustrations trying to use Unity for 2D, but I also do things differently sometimes too, so, many possible explanations for that..   And, they've made a few advancements in the 2D area since then as well..  That all being said, if you want to go with Unity, just do it..  Actually nothing to lose, especially if you enjoy learning new stuff.

Yeahh, the issue with Game Maker is your 'room' is literally how large your world is so you've gotta set that, you'll have a 'view' like a Unity Camera, you can follow an object until it hits the limits of your room.. I imagine there's a way to extend the room size actively during the game or something like that but then also reducing it from the left so not to lag I dunno how that'd work. But by default as far as I'm aware, if you put width at 5000, 5001 isn't accessible in your view and you even get a popup from game maker stating somethings are outside your room ? but I think Unity could be fun anyways, I don't wanna be 2D forever so getting back into C# will help when I wanna do 3D... if all fails I'll run back to Game Maker and apologise ? 

Will you actually run into performance issues if your room is 10 or 20 or 30000 wide?  I like to push the limits and find that stuff out before I try anything..  That's just me though.  haha

The same goes for Unity, or any other programming related adventure.  Hard to tune anything if you don't know the actual limits.

That's a good point to make and definitely worth finding out, I do know of the 'containment limit' in Game Maker rather than performance like the fact that I've got to state the room size is enough for me to move to something without that limitation for a game where I'd want to make it 'endless' in some regard. 

I'm not making a super rocket pro particle million asteroids game or anything but without spending a long time trying to build the game in Game Maker and testing out a bunch of different room sizes against my intended upgrade system I'm not going to know for sure what limits I'll have. 

I don't know if 30000 wide would be too small.. I know at base level you won't throw the item that far but if you wanted to add upgrades you'd need to cap them and kill the fun and place a definite limit (in game maker), Unless there's a way to get around presetting room size. As far as I'm aware in Unity you don't have to define your world space? So you could go on forever. This is why i'm going to move to Unity and the fact that I just want to get back to using it again. 

One day i'll test out performance with different room sizes but for me right now, the fact of putting a size at the beginning is a turn off because I'll never know without countless hours of testing how long to make the room realistically.