It may say the 3d games creator on the Dark Basic box, but on the DBPro box, it says 'write incredible games, applications, and presentations ...'!
I think most of us in this community who have released applications, start off with a game idea, and then realise there is no easy way to do a certain thing and end up writing our own utility to do it so that we can continue with our game - that's how GUI Studio came about. The fact that I haven't actually found time to use it in my own game development yet is a bit of an irony, though!
As for applications being easier to write than games, I beg to differ. Writing a game is made easier by the applications written for game development - someone has already written the level editor, light mapper, physics engine, 3d modeller, etc. so you can just drag and drop, point and click, or whatever. Writing the applications themselves though has to be done from scratch. With the exception perhaps of BlueGUI, there are no applications for application building - you're pretty much on your own!
