question: Who directed the game to which Allison Road was considered a spiritual successor? 
answer: Hideo Kojima
context: Title: Visage (video game)
  Passage: Visage is an independent survival horror video game in development by SadSquare Studio.  Similar to "Allison Road", the game is a spiritual successor to "P.T".  The game ran Kickstarter and Steam Greenlight campaigns.
  Title: Bhagatji Maharaj
  Passage: Bhagatji Maharaj (Gujarati: ભગતજી મહારાજ ) (20 March 1829 – 7 November 1897), born as Pragji Darji, was the second spiritual successor of Swaminarayan in the BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha, a Hindu denomination.  Through his spiritual discourses he was instrumental in propagating the knowledge that Swaminarayan was Purushottam, the Supreme Being, and that his own guru, Gunatitanand Swami, was Akshar, the divine abode of God.  His spiritual realization and elevated spiritual practice as a low-caste householder set new precedents and acted as a bulwark against the idea that spiritual elevation was confined to upper castes.  He passed on the knowledge of the Akshar-Purshottam Upasana to his closest disciple, Shastriji Maharaj, who later founded BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha in 1907.  His extraordinary spiritual service and unflinching devotion towards Gunatitanand Swami elevated him to an exalted status among devotees of the Swaminarayan sect both past and present.
  Title: World in Conflict
  Passage: World in Conflict is a 2007 real-time strategy (RTS) video game developed by the Swedish video game company Massive Entertainment and published by Sierra Entertainment for Microsoft Windows.  The game was released in September 2007, receiving generally favorable reviews and several awards.  The game is considered by some to be the spiritual successor of "Ground Control", another game by Massive Entertainment, and is generally conceived by its designers to be a real-time tactical game, despite being marketed as a RTS game.
  Title: P.T. (video game)
  Passage: P.T. (short for "playable teaser") is a first-person psychological horror video game developed by Kojima Productions, under the pseudonym "7780s Studio", and published by Konami.  The game was directed and designed by Hideo Kojima, in collaboration with film director Guillermo Del Toro.
  Title: Allison Road (video game)
  Passage: Allison Road is an upcoming first-person survival horror video game for Linux, Microsoft Windows, OS X by Lilith Ltd and formerly to be published by Team17.  It was considered to be a spiritual successor to "P.T.", the playable teaser for the cancelled video game "Silent Hills".  Before being funded by Team17, the game's development was fan-based.  On 4 June 2016, the "Allison Road" Twitter account announced the game's cancellation.  On August 22, 2016 an announcement was made on the Twitter account indicating that work on the game had resumed.
  Title: Hazrath Machiliwale Shah
  Passage: Machiliwale Shah Saheb (died September 8, 1932), also known as Hazrath Syed Kamalullah Shah, was a renowned Muslim Sufi, saint and scholar of the Quadri, Chisti order from Indian sub continent.  He was the disciple and the spiritual successor of Hazrath Syed Sultan Mahmoodullah Shah Hussaini (Shaji).  His most famous disciple and spiritual successor was Hazrath Ghousi Shah, who in turn became the spiritual master of India's noted Sufi saint.
  Title: DJMax Mobile
  Passage: DJMax Mobile (Korean: 디제이맥스 모바일, "dijeimaegseu mobail") is a version of DJMax rhythm action game specifically developed for mobile phones.  As of 2011, two separate titles exists of the game from separate developers who licensed DJMax brand from the Pentavision.  These mobile games were available only in Korea.  DJMax Mobile has two different gameplay styles.  First mode is similar to DJMax Portable series where you press physical buttons at a specific time.  However, if you mobile phone has a touch-screen capability you can also play the game in year 2009 version using mode which is similar to DJMax Technika where you do very specific touch gestures to control the game.  DJMax Mobile games are not considered as a part of the main game series because they weren't developed by Pentavision and quality of these games is average even when compared to other similar mobile games.  Both of these games are discontinued.  Spiritual successor for the DJMax Mobile series is called Tap Sonic.  The upcoming mobile game is called DJMax Ray, it developed by Pentavision and published by Neowiz Internet.
  Title: Piney Flats, Tennessee
  Passage: Piney Flats is an unincorporated community in Sullivan County in the U.S. state of Tennessee.  It is part of the Kingsport–Bristol (TN)–Bristol (VA) Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is a component of the Johnson City–Kingsport–Bristol, TN-VA Combined Statistical Area – commonly known as the "Tri-Cities" region.  Some areas of Piney Flats along U.S. Route 11E have been annexed by Johnson City (south of the Allison Road and Piney Flats Road intersection) and Bluff City north of the intersection and areas along Allison Road & Piney Flats Road.  Former Sullivan East legend and Current King University superstar Jon King lives in Piney on the one road they have.
  Title: Spiritual successor
  Passage: A spiritual successor, sometimes called a spiritual sequel, is a successor to a work of fiction which does not build upon the storyline established by a previous work as do most traditional prequels or sequels, yet features many of the same elements, themes, and styles as its source material, thereby resulting in it being related or similar "in spirit" to its predecessor.  The term is frequently used within the video game industry but is also applied to other forms of publicized works and designed objects.
  Title: Abdur-Razzaq Nurul-Ain
  Passage: Syed Abdur-Razzaq Nurul-Ain is the successor of the Sufi saint Syed Ashraf Jahangir Semnani.  From amongst the descendants of Syed Abdul Razzaq Jilani, the line of saints of Ashrafia Jilania is one of the most reputed households belonging to the Indo-Pak subcontinent.  Within this line, Syed Abdul Razzaq, popularly known as Nur-ul-Ain, was the heir, disciple and Khalifa of Syed Ashraf Jehangir Semani.  Syed Abdul Razzaq was the son of his maternal cousin.  Syed Abdul Razzaq is the 11th descendant of the greatest Sufi Syed Abdul Qadir Jilani of Jilan, Iraq.  Abdur-Razzaq Nurul-Ain first met Ashraf Jahangir Semnani at the age of twelve years in Baghdad when Ashraf Jahangir Semnani made a visit there and from there on never parted from his company.  He adopted Syed Abdul Razzaq as his son and made him the heir and caretaker.  Originated from the name of Syed Ashraf, this line of saints is still called as Ashrafia.  Syed Ashraf Jehangir Semani died in 808 AH and Syed Abdul Razzaq became the heir to his throne.  After strenuous spiritual training he was bestowed with Khilafat (Spiritual Successor) and from him the Ashrafi spiritual chain flourished.  According to the tradition of Mirat-ul-Asrar, at the time of his death, Syed Ashraf Jehangir Semani was either 106 or 110 years of age.  In Tohfta ul Abrar, his age is written as 120 and year of birth is 688 AH.  Even his adopted son, Syed Abdul Razzaq was 120 of age at the time of his death.  He spent 12 years before he took Bayat and 68 years in travel and in the service of Syed Ashraf Jehangir Semani and the remaining 40 years after the death of his Murshid at the throne of Khilafat.  In accordance to this, his birth year becomes 728, year of arrival in India 740 and year of death 848.  His grave is located next to that of Ashraf Jahangir Semnani in the same Shrine in Kichauccha Sharif, Dist.  Ambedkar Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, India.
citations: Allison Road (video game) P.T. (video game)